Maritime record 13852 - MINERVA: EILEAN GLAS, SCALPAY, NORTH MINCH

NG29SW 8012 c. 247 947
N57 51.4 W6 38.5

NLO: Eilean Glas [name: NG 247 947]
Scalpay (Scalpaigh) [name centred NG 23 95]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

22 June 1884, MINERVA, 4 yrs old, of Germany, Bureau Veritas, II Div., from 6.80, last survey 2.83, iron S.S., 190 tons, 11 crew, Master T. Jurgensen, Owner F. M. Bruhn, Flensborg, departed Runcorn for Lerwick, carrying salt, wind WSW5, stranded, total loss, Griadach Rock, Scalpay Island, Western Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).

MINERVA (s). Stornoway, June 23, 10 20 a.m. The German steamer MINERVA, of Flensburg, Jurgensen master, Runcorn for Lerwick, cargo salt, has gone ashore on a rock near Glass Light. Bottom reported seriously damaged. Lloyd's Agent arranging to send assistance. Position exposed.
Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,886, London, Tuesday June 24 1884.

MINERVA (s). Stornoway, June 23. The German steamer MINERVA , from Runcorn for Lerwick, which went ashore on a rock near Glass Light, has become a total wreck. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3490).

(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 22 June 1884). This vessel stranded on Griadach Rock, Scalpay. Capt. Jurgensen.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Griadach Rock is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, unless it is to be equated with Aird Riabhach [name: NG 240 965].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 March 2004.

REPORT DATE: 13/04/2004