Maritime record 14106 - BERMUDA: VATERSAY, SEA OF THE HEBRIDES

NL69SW 8006 c. 63 94
N56 55 W7 32

Possibly on map sheets NL69NW, NL69NE or NL69SE.

Location formerly cited as NL c. 64 90 [N56 53 W7 31].

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

31 December 1865, BERMUDA, new, ship, 677 tons, 20 crew, departed Greenock for Trinidad, carrying coal etc., stranded, total loss, 1 life lost, wind S10, Watersay [Vatersay], Island of Barra.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1865 (1866 [3716] LXV.507).

BERMUDA, owned by John Kerr, Esq., Greenock, wrecked on Sunday 31st December 1865, at about 2pm on the Island of Vatersay, close to the wreck of the HARMONY.
Statement by the Master, Alexander Coulter, to the Board of Trade, 31st August 1866. Wrecking in the Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1866 (1867 [3901] LXIV.235).

31 December 1865, BERMUDA, 677 tons, of Greenock, total loss, departed Greenock for West Indies, carrying coals, grain, and bricks. Stranded at Watersay [Vatersay], Island of Barra.
Statement showing the Casualties that occurred on and off the Islands on the [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2243).

(Classified as wooden [full-rigged] ship, with cargo of coal, grain and bricks; date of loss cited as 31 December 1865). This vessel stranded on the south side of Sandray during her maiden voyage.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Larn and Larn suggest a location for the stranding on Vatersay but Whittaker locates it on the S side of Sandray [at NL c. 64 90]. The earliest available account (MS/829/68) indicates that the former location is to be preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 April 2002 and 17 March 2004.
R and B Larn 1998; I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 17/03/2004