Maritime record 13783 - SPANKER: OBB BAY, HARRIS, ATLANTIC

NG09SW 8001 unlocated

Possibly on map sheet NG08NW.

13 January 1890. SPANKER. 31 years of Stornoway. Wood trading ketch. 39 ton. 4 men. Master A.J. Kerr. Owner M. McLean, Stornoway. Stornoway to Carloway. Cured herrings. Wind S10. Obbe Bay, South Harris.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1889-90 (1890-91 [C.6468] LXXVI.485).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1522).

(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of cured herring: registration number cited as SY 823 and date of loss as 13 January 1890). This vessel stranded at Obbe Bay, Harris.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Obb Bay cannot be identified from the available map evidence and the stranding is placed in the area suggested by Larn and Larn. The village on An t-Ob is at NG 017 863 and Whittaker cites 'Obbe Bay' (in this area) as a possible location.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 April 2002.
R and B Larn 1998; I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 21/11/2003