Maritime record 13909 - ENTERPRISE: TAVAY, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB42SW 8001 c. 420 228
N58 7.1 W6 22.9

Formerly entered in error as NB43SW 8043 at cited location NB c. 43 31 [N58 12 W6 22].

NLO: Tabhaidh Beag [name: NB 418 229]
Tabhaidh Mhor [name: NB 422 228]
Stac Tabhaidh [name: NB 421 224].

W. 5 December 1850. ENTERPRISE, schooner, 86 tons 5 crew + 2 passengers. Loch Broom to Stornoway, salt, SW+ly S, thick 5am ? full. No exams, 9 years, value vessel #500, insured #200 at Liverpool. Cargo value #94 insured #60 at Liverpool. 1 passenger life lost, Tavay, wrecked at Tavay near. Brechin Island (1) Thick weather and want of light on the Point of Annish 'Not sufficient means of saving life in district.' CGd Stornoway (Colth. Customs)
Source: PP British Sessional Papers. Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1850 and 1851 (1852 (XLIX.503)).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 188).

W. 5 December 1850. ENTERPRISE of Stornoway, schooner, Ullapool to Stornoway. SW force 9, Birkin Islands, struck on sunken rock of the. Immediately filled and sunk in deep water. Crew saved with much difficulty in golly boat with only 1 oar. SHIPPING AND MERCANTILE GAZETTE 9 December 1850.
Source: PP British Sessional Papers. Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 190).

(Classified as schooner: date of loss cited as 5 December 1850). This vessel struck rocks at the entrance to Stornoway, and sank in deep water.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 13/11/2003