Maritime record 14095 - BLIGH: TARANSAY, ATLANTIC

NB00SW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Taransay [name: NB 03 02].

30 January 1854, BLIGH, of Wick, schooner, 97 ton, 6 men, Limerick to Glasgow, oats, wind WNW force 9, thick with snow showers, value #700, cargo #1,000, total loss. On Isle Taransa, the west side of Harris, Hebrides, by stress of weather. Crew saved. Lloyds List. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. Coastguard Officers.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1854 (1854-55 (75) XXXIV.359)

Stornoway, 3rd Feb. The BLIGH, Elder, from Limerick, was totally lost on the West side of Harris, on the 30th Jan.; crew saved. A ship's name board, marked 'MADDOCKS, of Liverpool' with several pieces of wreck and a quantity of [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 502).

(Classified as wooden schooner with cargo of oats: date of loss cited as 29 January 1854). This vessel was wrecked on the Island of Taransa, west side of Harris.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. It may alternatively fall on any of map sheets NA90SE, NF99NE or NG99NW.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 April 2002.

REPORT DATE: 22/08/2003