Maritime record 13784 - COLUMBUS: EAST ROCK, MONACH ISLANDS, ATLANTIC

NF66SW 8002 unlocated

NLO: Heisker or Monach Islands (Theisgeir No Na h-Eileanan Monach): name centred NF 63 63.
[Extend onto map sheet NF56SE].

4 April 1892. COLUMBUS. 20 years of Norway. Wood barque. 894 ton. 14 men. Master B.C. Hagemann. Owner A.F. Klaveness, Sandefjord, Norway. Sapelo, Georgia to Grangemouth. Timber and 1 passenger. Wind SW6. East Rock, Monach Islands, off N. Uist.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1891-92 (1893-94 [C.7069] LXXX.711).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1395).

(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 4 April 1892). This vessel stranded on East Rock, Monach Island.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Possibly on map sheet NF56SE or NF66SE. East Rock cannot be identified from the available map evidence but the name may refer to Stocaidh [name: NF 660 630].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 April 2002.

REPORT DATE: 16/03/2004