Maritime record 14107 - HARMONY: VATERSAY, SEA OF THE HEBRIDES

NL69SW 8007 c. 63 94
N56 55 W7 32

Possibly on map sheets NL69NW, NL69NE or NL69SE.

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

HARMONY, probably North American built, three masted, registered at Glasgow or Greenock, carrying pine, birch, and oak timber, and deals, shipped by Messrs. J Burstall & Co., of Quebec, reported to have not arrived after leaving Quebec for Penarth, Cardiff, on 17th November 1865. Large quantities of timber fragments ashore at Tallisker Bay (possibly from the GUY MANNERING). A nameboard with HARMONY in gilt letters was washed up on the shore of the Island of Barra. Part of the cargo and hull alleged to be on a rock in Vatersay Sound, and the remainder cast on the shores and adjacent islands.
Extracts from Receiver of Wreck, Stornoway report: large vessel, bottom up, laden with timber, found in Sound of Sandra, Island of Barra, January 1866, and lying on rocks at Watersay, Isle of Barra. Vessel supposed to be about 1000 tons, from North America. Wrecking in the Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1866 (1867 [3901] LXIV.235).

7 January 1866, HARMONY, 26 yrs old, ship, 849 tons, 15 crew, departed Quebec for Penarth Roads, carrying timber, stranded, total loss, 15 lives lost, [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2283).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as timber and date of loss as 8 January 1866). This vessel stranded on Vatersay Sound (or the Sound of Sandra). Figurehead on Tiree, other remains on Canna.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 18/03/2004