Maritime record 13827 - CORSAIR: HELLISAY, SEA OF THE HEBRIDES

NF70SE 8002 c. 75 04
N57 1 W7 21

Possibly on map sheets NF70NE or NF70SW.

NLO: Sound of Barra (An Caolas Barrach) [name centred NF 75 09]
Hellisay (Theiliseigh) [name centred NF 755 041]
Barra (Barraigh) [name centred NF 68 01].

Campbeltown, 9th Jan. `A board with `CORSAIR, for Quebec and Montreal¿, painted on a yellow ground, was picked up on the West Coast, where timber has been coming in, as stated on the 7th instant.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7756, London, Tuesday January 15 1839.

North Uist, 17th Jan. `The CORSAIR, of Glasgow, bound to Malta, parted her moorings in the Sound of Bona [Barra], drifted on the Island of Helesay [Hellisay], and bilged: crew and most of the materials saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7765, London, Friday January 25 1839.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7406).

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 17 January 1839). Corsair: this vessel stranded on Island of Helesay, Sound of Barra, and bilged. Capt. Henderson.
Built 1828. 77 tons builders measurement. Length: 18m. Beam: 5m.
(Location cited as N57 0.5 W7 20.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 10/01/2005