Maritime record 14023 - LOBELIA: ENSAY, ATLANTIC

NF98NE 8001 c. 97 86
N57 46 W7 6

NLO: Ensay (Easaigh) [name: NG 97 86].

18 October 1896, LOBELIA, 20 years, of Ardrossan. Wood smack, 44 ton, 3 men, Master and owner D. Kerr, Ardrossan. Moored at Ensay, Island of Harris. Coal. Wind N8. Ensay island, near Harris, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 901).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 18 October 1896). This vessel was driven from moorings and stranded at Ensay Island, near Harris.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 03/10/2003