Maritime record 13844 - FAIRY QUEEN: SOUND OF SHIANT
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| Grid reference | Not recorded |
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| Parish | MARITIME, Western Isles |
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NB30SE 8001 unlocated
NLO: Sound of Shiant/Caolas nan Eilean [name centred NB 37 01]
Shiant Islands/Na H-Eileanan Mora [name centred NG 42 97].
20 June 1866, FAIRY QUEEN, 17 tons, of Wick, total loss, departed Scalpa [Scalpay] for Stornoway, carrying herrings, foundered in the Minch, one mile east from Ru Ushenish, and eight miles north-east from Glass Lighthouse.
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 1866 (1867 [3901] LXIV.235).
Stornoway, 23rd June. The FAIRY QUEEN (smack), of Wick, McDonald, from Scalpa [Scalpay] to this place, with herrings, sprung a leak in a heavy sea 20th June, and [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2318).
(Classified as smack, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 20 June 1866). This vessel foundered in the Minch, 1 mile E of Ru Ushenish, 8 miles NE of Glass lighthouse.
I G Whittaker 1998.
REPORT DATE: 01/11/2004
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Record last edited
Jul 29 2005 12:00AM
