Maritime record 13782 - VALKYRIEN: SGEIR IN-AO, LITTLE MINCH

NG29SE 8001 c. 292 918
N57 50 W6 33.8

NLO: Sgeir In-ao [name: NG 292 918].

2 July 1888. VALKYRIEN. 40 years of Norway. Wood barque. 280 ton. 9 men. Master H. Steen. Owner L. Pettersen, Svelvick, Norway. Greenock to Christiania [Oslo]. Coal. Wind E6. Midway between Shiant Isles and Island Glass Lighthouse, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1581).

(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 2 July 1888). This vessel stranded [?] midway between the Shiant Isles and Island Glass lighthouse.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 24/11/2003