Maritime record 14077 - SEX BRODRE: SOUND OF SHIANT, NORTH MINCH

NB30SE 8002 unlocated

Formerly also entered as NC14NE 8002 at cited location NC c. 15 47 [N58 22 W5 10].

Possibly on map sheet NC14NW or NC14NE.

NLO: Sound of Handa [name centred NC 151 475]
Handa Island [name centred NC 136 481]
Scourie (name: NC 158 447)
Sound of Shiant/Caolas nan Eilean [name centred NB 37 01]
Shiant Islands/Na H-Eileanan Mora [name centred NG 42 97]..

28 September 1879, SIX BRODRE, 20 yrs old, of Norway, wooden brigantine, 134 tons, 6 crew, Master H. Thorsen, Owner P. W. Steffensen, Drammen, Norway, departed Drammen for Belfast, carrying wood, capsized, 3 lives lost, wind S10, total loss, midway between the Sheant [Shiant] Isles and the Island of Lewis, the Minch.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3012).

Wick, Sept. 27, 8.35 p.m., telegram from Handa Sound, Scourie, Sutherlandshire: "Brig ashore, bottom up: three men lost: three saved: vessel from Dram for Belfast: name not given: particulars by post".
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,412, London, Monday September 29 1879.

Wick, Sept. 29, SEX BRODRE, Thoresen, From Drammen for Belfast (wood), is ashore in the Sound of Handa (Scourie): master and two men saved, three lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,415, London, Thursday October 2 1879.

Tarbet (N. Scotland), Sept. 26, SEX BRODRE brigantine, Thoresen, of and from Dram for Belfast (spars and plain boards), was struck by a squall and upset, on the 23rd inst., between the Shetland Islands and the Island of Lewis. The vessel was on her beam ends for about an hour, when the masts went, and she then turned and floated keel upwards. Three men were drowned, washed off the keel, but the remainder of the crew (three men) were taken off the wreck and brought to shore here. The vessel has since been towed by Tarbet [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4854).

(Name cited as Six Brodre and classified as wooden brigantine, with cargo of wood: date of loss cited as 23 September 1879). This vessel capsized between the Shiant Islands and Lewis. [Location of loss cited as N57 57 W6 25].
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location, map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary. The vessel apparently capsized in theSound of Shiant, was washed ashore in the Sound of Handa, and then towed to Tarbet.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2004 and 1 November 2004.

REPORT DATE: 01/11/2004