Maritime record 13787 - OCEAN MAID: HYSKIER ROCKS, MONACH ISLANDS, ATLANTIC

NF66SW 8004 unlocated

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

Possibly on map sheet NF56SE or NF66SE.

1 January 1894, OCEAN MAID, 31 years, of Carnarvon. Lloyds A1 in red SS90, 8 years. Survey 4/93. Wood schooner. 85 ton. 5 men. Master E. Parry. Owner J. Owen, Moelfra, Anglesea. Bangor to W. Hartlepool. Slates. Wind ENE6. Hiskier Island, N. Uist.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327)
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1204).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of slates: date of loss cited as 1 January 1894). This vessel stranded on Hiskier [Hyskier] Island, North Uist.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 16/03/2004