Maritime record 13707 - COLUMBA: SCALPAY HARBOUR, SCALPAIGH, LITTLE MINCH

NG29NW 8012 unlocated

NLO: Scalpaigh (Scalpay) [name centred NG 23 95].

6 February 1866, COLUMBA, 130 tons, of Stavanger, partial loss, departed Liverpool for Stavanger, carrying salt, dismasted in Scalpay Harbour, Island of Harris.
Statement showing the Casualties that occurred on and off the Islands on the Western Coast of Scotland, between 1st December 1865 and 30th June 1866. Wrecking in the Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2315).

The loss is not noted by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of the vessel having been repaired.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 March 2004.

REPORT DATE: 19/03/2004