Maritime record 14108 - ERSTATINGEN: BAINTRUE, HARRIS, SOUND OF HARRIS

NF98SE 8001 unlocated

19 December 1865, ERSTATINGEN, 200 tons, of Christiansand, total loss, departed Troon for Christiansand, carrying coals, stranded at Baintrue, Sound of Harris.
Statement showing the Casualties that occurred on and off the Islands on the Western Coast of Scotland, between 1st December 1865 and 30th June 1866. Wrecking in the Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1866 (1867 [3901] LXIV.235).

Stornoway, 23rd Dec. The ERSTATNINGEN (schr.), of Christiansand, Holm, went ashore at Harris, 19th Dec., and was likely to become a total wreck: she was being stripped on the 20th: crew saved. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2291).

(Name cited as Erstatingen and classified as schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 19 December 1865). This vessel stranded at Baintrue, Harris.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. Baintrue cannot be identified from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 April 2002.

REPORT DATE: 18/03/2004