Maritime record 14120 - NANCY: LOCHROY, LINGEIGH, SOUND OF BERNERAY

NL68NW 8001 c. 60 89
N56 52 W7 35

NLO: Lingeigh [name: NL 603 897].

24 January 1852 NANCY, of Harrington, brig, 158 ton, 8 men, Harrington to Westport, coal, wind SW force 9, thick, 5 pm, no exams, vessel age 40, value #800 loss of #1300, insured #650 at Lloyd's. Cargo #170 not insured. Place - Berneray Loch rog. (sic) Stranded on a rock at Lingay and sunk off the west end of, having been blown off the coast of Ireland. No pilot could be had, in answer to signal flying for 2 hours, to lead vessel clear of rocks, and she drove from her anchors after she was brought to. Lloyds Agent thinks no boat could have got off to her. Edkin = master; B. Elkin and Co. = owners of Harrington. Lloyds List 2 February 1852 Stornoway. Return Col. Cust.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of the UK 1852 (1852-53 (983) LXI.1)

Stornoway, 28th Jan. The NANCY, Edkin, of and from Harrington, for Westport, having been blown off the coast of Ireland, stranded and sank on the West end of Berneray, Lochrog, 24th Jan.; crew saved. [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 337).

(Classified as brig with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 24 January 1852). This vessel foundered off Bernerey, Lochroy, W end of Lingay.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location of this loss remains unverified. There are several Lingeigh or Lingay names in the Western Isles, but Lochroy is not noted as such on the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 August 2003.

REPORT DATE: 05/08/2003