Maritime record 13779 - ABSTAINER: FUAM AN TOLLA, SCALPAY, LOCH AN TAIRBEAIRT, LITTLE MINCH

NG29NW 8007 c. 207 263
N57 14.5 W6 37.8

NLO: Fuam an Tolla [name: NG 207 263]
Scalpay (Scalpaigh) [name centred NG 23 95].

29 October 1884, ABSTAINER, 18 yrs old, Belfast registered, wood brigantine, 195 tons, 6 crew. Master S McGiffin. Owner W. McGiffin, Carrickfergus. Departed Larn for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne carrying limestone. Wind W4. Stranded Foymeintolla [Fuam an Tolla], Scalpay, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).

ABSTAINER. Stornoway, Oct. 31, 10 40 a.m.. The vessel stranded at Scalpay, Harris, is the ABSTAINER, of Belfast, cargo limestone, for Newcastle: no further particulars: my (Lloyd's Agents) representative proceeds to spot.
Source: Maritime Intelligence, Shipping & Mercantile Gazette and LL, No. 14,727, London, Friday October 31 1884

ABSTAINER. Scalpay, Harris, Oct. 30. Brigantine ABSTAINER, of Belfast, from Larne for -----, struck on a sunken rock yesterday. She slipped ----- morning and drifted on to Foymeintolla Island, ---- now lies half full of water and damaging her bottom.
Source: Maritime Intelligence, Shipping & Mercantile Gazette and LL, No. 14,734, London, Saturday November 8 1884.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1861).

(Classified as wooden brigantine, with cargo of limestone: date of loss cited as 29 October 1884). This vessel stranded at Foymeintolla [Fuam an Tolla], Scalpay.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 13/04/2004