Maritime record 13786 - VILLE DE ST MARTIN: MONACH ISLANDS, ATLANTIC

NF66SW 8001 unlocated

Possibly on map sheet NF56SE or NF66SE.

NLO: Heisker or Monach Islands (Theisgeir No Na h-Eileanan Monach): name centred NF 63 63.
[Extend onto map sheet NF56SE].

1 February 1864, VILLE DE ST MARTIN, brig, 126 tons, 6 crew (supposed), stranded, total loss, 6 lives lost, wind W6, SW side of Monach Island, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1864 (1865 [3529] L.439).

Stornoway, 13th Feb. Some boards, deck-beams, casks, spars, and other fragments of wreckage, were found on Monach Isle, North Uist, from the 2nd to the 4th Feb.: they are supposed to be from the VILLE DE ST. MARTIN (Fr. vessel), according to some papers picked up near the spot: 6 dead bodies had also been found on the beach.
Source: LL, No. 15,556, London, Thursday, February 18 1864.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2209).

(No classification specified but date of loss cited as 2 February 1864: in ballast). This vessel was wrecked on Monach Island.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 17/03/2004