Maritime record 14130 - ERNST WILHELM: THAIRTEAMUL, SEA OF THE HEBRIDES

NF81SW 8006 c. 833 114
N57 4.9667 W7 13.7167

NLO: Thairteamul [name: NF 833 114].

16 August 1885, ERNST WILHELM, 22 yrs old, registered Germany, wooden barque, 345 tons, 10 crew. Master J. E. Girow, Owner E. W. Ohrloff and Son, Barth. Departed Newport, Mon., for Copenhagen carrying coal. Wind NW4, stranded Hartsmul Island, between Eriskay and S. Uist, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1878).

(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 16 August 1885). This vessel stranded on Harstmul Island, South Uist.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 15/12/2003