Maritime record 14152 - UNKNOWN: MONACH ISLANDS, ATLANTIC

NF66SW 8009 unlocated

Possibly on map sheet NF56SE or NF66SE.

NLO: Heisker or Monach Islands (Theisgeir No Na h-Eileanan Monach): name centred NF 63 63.
[Extend onto map sheet NF56SE].

11 September 1866, a small boat which left North Uist for Monach, with two men on board, was caught in a gale, and the men becoming exhausted, the boat was drifting through dangerous breakers towards the Atlantic, when Neil Stewart and eight other fishermen of Monach, manned a boat belonging to the FORM:er, and succeeded in bringing the boat and men safely to shore. Awards granted out of the Mercantile Marine Fund: Neil Stewart: £1 and 10s for damage to his boat: eight other fishermen of the Island of Monach, £1 each.
Table 29: List of Persons, Subjects of Great Britain and its Dependencies, to whom Rewards have been granted by the British Government, during the Year 1866, for gallant Services in Saving Life from Shipwreck. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2355).

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 March 2004.

REPORT DATE: 22/03/2004