Maritime record 14094 - W H DAVIES: VATERSAY, SEA OF THE HEBRIDES

NL69SW 8005 c. 63 94
N56 55 W7 32

Possibly on map sheets NL69NW, NL69NE or NL69SE.

NLO: Vatersay/Bhatarsaigh [name centred NL 64 95].

27 January 1854, W.H. DAVIES, of Liverpool, 876 ton, 24 men, Liverpool to New Orleans, salt, wind force 11, 23 dead, total wreck. On Vatersa Island, Hebrides, at night, by stress of weather, and only one (the steward) saved. This vessel sailed from Liverpool January 10th, put into Belfast, leaky, January 12th, the crew being refractory and refusing to work the ship.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK [record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 500).

(No classification cited: cargo cited as salt and date of loss as 27 January 1854). This vessel was wrecked on Vatersay.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 22/08/2003