Maritime record 13920 - GERTRUDIS: SIOLAIGH, ATLANTIC

NF89SE 8001 c. 88 91
N57 48 W7 15

NLO: Siolaigh [name centred NF 881 913]
Caolas na Hearadh (Sound of Harris): name centred NF 96 81.

15 September 1863, GERTRUDIS, schooner, 98 tons, unknown crew say 6, carrying dried cod fish, stranded, total loss, 6 lives lost, off Island of Schilla [Shillay], North Uist.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1863 (1864 [3400] LV.1031).

North Uist, 29th Sept. The GERTRUDES (brigtne.), of Bilbao, was totally lost on Monach Island in the night of 15th Sept., and all hands must have perished. The bodies of two sailors have since been found on the West side of this island, opposite Monach. The weather continues very stormy.
Source: LL, No. 15,439, London, Saturday, October 3 1863.

North Uist, 25th Sept. Some pieces of wreck, and part of the rigging, &c., have been washed ashore from the GERTRUDES, of Bilbao, which was lost on Monach Island during the night of 15th Sept., also some fish, which appears to have been cargo. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2182).

(Name cited as Gertrudes and classified as brigantine: date of loss cited as 15 September 1863). This vessel was wrecked on Monach Isles.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The Schillay Islands cannot be identified from the available map evidence, but the location cited by Larn and larn suggests their equation with Siolaigh [name: NF 880 913]. Whittaker places the loss on the Monach Isles or Heiskeir [centred NF 62 62].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2002.
R and B Larn 1998; I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 18/05/2004