Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760225

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/760225

NL69NW 8001 c. 624 953

N56 55.5 W7 33

NLO: Bagh Siar [name centred NL 624 953]

Vatersay/Bhatarsaigh [name centred NL 62 96]

Barra (Barraigh): [name centred NL 67 02].

Possibly on map sheet NL69SW.

See also NL69NW 128.

Formerly entered as NL69NW 9550 at cited location NL 6068 9890 (N56 57 W7 35) and also as unlocated.

28 September 1853, ANNIE JANE, of Liverpool, Liverpool to Montreal, passengers, wind W force 11, stormy, 360 dead, total wreck. Isle Vatersa, Hebrides, by stress of weather. The ship was dismasted. 36 hours after leaving Liverpool. Drove as far as latitude 60? North by continued gales and was finally lost on Isle Vatersa [Vatersay]. Twelve of the crew and 102 passengers saved. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. Lloyds List. [Vatersay - south of Barra. CB]

Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 457).

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = UND

Circumstances of Loss Details

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22 May 1970. The emigrant ship ANNIE JANE was on a voyage from Liverpool to Canada with 450 passengers and crew when she was struck by a huge wave in rough weather off Barra Island in the Hebrides. The vessel went to pieces within 15 mins. 348 lives lost.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as brig, carrying emigrants: date of loss cited as 28 September 1853). Annie Jane: this vessel was wrecked at Bagh Siar, on the W side of Vatersay. Capt. Mason.

Registraton: Liverpool. Built 1853. 1294 tons burthern. Length: 55m. Beam: 10m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 55.33 W7 33.67).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Comprehsensive and illustrated description of stranding, with discussion of subsequent interment of remains, enquiry and construction of monument).

M Clark 2006.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The clearly-defined bay of Bagh Siar is set into the W side of the island of Vatersay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 March 2008.