Maritime record 13838 - NEDA: EILEAN AN TAIGHE, SHIANT ISLANDS, NORTH MINCH

NG49NW 8002 c. 42 97
N57 53 W6 21

NLO: Eilean an Taighe [name: NG 420 970]
Shiant Islands/Na H-Eileanan Mora: name centred NG 42 97.

23 January 1876, NEDA, 19 yrs old, of Newcastle, Lloyd's cont.1869, 8 yrs A1, wooden barque, 374 tons, 11 crew, Master J. Clarke, Owner M. Thompson, Newcastle, departed Dublin for Newcastle in ballast, wind S. by W. 10, stranded on Eilean-na-Tighe, one of the Shiant Isles, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1875 - 76 (1876 [C.1632] LXVII.191).

NEDA, Official No.12,909, built Pallion, Co. Durham, 1857. Prudent courses were steered, and her position as discovered when close upon the island could only be accounted fro by a strong northerly current caused by the strong southerly gale. Master acquitted. Inquiry held at Newcastle.
Table 46: Statement of Official Inquiries in the United Kingdom into the Causes of Wrecks, Casualties, and Collisions, ordered by the Board of Trade during the Year 1875-6.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1875 - 76 (1876 [C.1632] LXVII.191).

Glasgow, 27th Jan., advices from Stornoway announce that large quantities of timber, consisting chiefly of hardwood logs, were coming ashore along the coast of Lewes [Lewis], and that it was reported that the hull of a large vessel had been seen off the island.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,272, London, Saturday January 29 1876.

Stornoway, 28th Jan., 12.10 p.m., lot of hard wood logs come ashore 'next' side of this island marked 'B. B. & L.': Receiver of Wreck taken charge: no wreckage so far as known.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,272, London, Saturday January 29 1876.

Stornoway, 29th Jan., 9.32 a.m., the NEDA (barq.), of Newcastle, Clark, from Dublin to Shields, in ballast, was totally wrecked on Shiant island, Lewis, on the 23rd Jan.: crew saved: spars, rigging, sails, boats, all destroyed: part materials may be saved. Telegram yesterday from Jno. McGregor, Underwriters' Room, Glasgow, identifying logs ashore reported yesterday.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,273, London, Monday January 31 1876.

North Uist, 31st Jan., 1.10 p.m., several logs of teak have come ashore here, with 'B. B. Co.' stamped on end, also the number and dimensions.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,274, London, Tuesday February 1 1876.

Stornoway, 10th Feb., craft are arriving with the materials saved from the wreck of the NEDA on the Shiant isles.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,286, London, Tuesday February 15 1876.

Tigheary (N. Uist), 12th Feb., a number of logs of teak, marked on ends 'B.B. & NCo.', some logs of pine, a log of elm, some deals, a round piece of timber and a piece of topmast have been picked up this month on the coasts of these islands.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,293, London, Wednesday February 23 1876.

Stornoway, 29th Feb., the hull and materials of the NEDA (barq.), of Shields, wrecked on the Shiant islands, have been sold at auction for about £200.25 January 1876.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,302, London, Saturday March 4 1876.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2608).

(Classified as barque, in ballast; date of loss cited as 30 January 1876). This vessel stranded on a beach on the Shiant Islands. The hull was sold for 63 pounds.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 13/04/2004