Maritime record 14098 - BERTHA: EOLIGARRY SANDS, BARRA, ATLANTIC

NF70NW 8006 c. 70 07
N57 2 W7 26

NLO: Eolaigearradh [name: NF 702 077].

15th March 1860, BERTHA, brig, 110 tons, 6 crew, carrying salt, stranded, total loss, 5 lives lost, wind NW 9, Eoligary, Barra.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1860 (1861 [2811] LVIII.335).

North Uist, 28th Mar. The BERTHA (Norw. schr.), Nielson, from Belfast, with rock salt, was driven on the rocks on the west side of Coligary [Eoligary], Island of Barra, during the night of 15th Mar., and broke up in a few hours: crew, except the master, drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,354, London, Thursday April 5 1860.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2049).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of rock salt: date of loss cited as 15 March 1860). This vessel was wrecked on the W side of Eoligarry, Barra.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Possibly on map sheet NF60NE. Eoligarry Sands are not noted as such on the 2001 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. Whittaker suggests a location 'on the west side of Eoligarry'.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 April 2002.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 01/03/2004