Maritime record 12034 - JOHANN BENJAMIN: EILEAN SHIPHOIRT, LOCH SHIPHOIRT, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB21SW 8001 c. 20 10
N57 59 W6 44

Formerly entered as NB20SW 8002 (unlocated).

Possibly on map sheet NB11SE or NB20NW.

NLO: Loch Seaforth (Loch Shiphoirt): name centred NB 21 06
Eilean Shiphoirt [name centred NB 209 109].

1 October 1882, JOHANN BENJAMIN, 22 yrs old, of Germany, Bureau Veritas, 5/6, G.1.1., for 6 yrs from 5.82, last survey 5.82, wooden barque, 422 tons, 11 crew, Master R. Hamann, Owner Ramisch, Schwedersky and Co., Memel, departed Archangel for Liverpool, carrying deals and battens, wind SSE10, stranded, total loss, Seaforth Island, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).

JOHAN BENJAMIN, Hansen, from Archangel for Liverpool, which went ashore on Seaforth Island, Oct. 1, lost her foremast, and cut away her mainmast, after grounding: the vessel fills with every tide, and the cargo will have to be discharged to get her off. (Stornoway, Oct. 4).
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,356, London, Tuesday October 10 1882.

JOHAN BENJAMIN, German barque, from Archangel for Liverpool, which was wrecked Oct. 1 at Seaforth, Lewis, was sold by auction at Stornoway yesterday, and realised £20 for the hull and £120 for the materials. (Glasgow, Nov. 21). [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3308).

(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of deals and battens: date of loss cited as 1 October 1882). This vessel stranded on Seaforth Island. Capt. Hamann. (On an island 8 miles from Loch Seaforth).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.

REPORT DATE: 29/06/2004