Maritime record 14099 - FREDERIKKE: BALRANALD, NORTH UIST

NF76NW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Baile Raghnill [name: NF 726 697].

4th February 1861, FREDERIKE, 4 yrs old, schooner, 118 tons, 7 crew, carrying salt, foundered, total loss, 7 lives lost, Bahanald, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1861 (1862 [3028] LIV.845).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2126).

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary and it may fall on map sheet NF66NE. Larn and Larn locate the loss at 'Bahanald' in the Outer Hebrides. Bahanald cannot be located from the available map evidence, but may be equated with the various 'Balranald' place names in this area.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 April 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.

REPORT DATE: 03/03/2004