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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 822657

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/822657

NF87NW 8001 c. 81 76

N57 40 W7 21

NLO: Solas [name: NF 813 748]

Loch nam Madadh (Lochmaddy) [name: NF 918 689]

Loch Maddy (Loch nam Madadh) [name centred NF 931 685]

North Uist [name centred NF 85 72].

Possibly on map sheet NF87SW.

21st February 1885, HERMINE, 22 yrs old, registered Cork, wooden brig, 224 tons, 7 crew, Master and Owner J. Molony, Cork. Departed Troon for Limerick carrying coal. Wind S10, stranded Sollas, N. Uist, Hebrides.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1965).

(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 21 February 1885). Hermine: this vessel stranded at Sollas [Solas], North Uist. Capt. Molony.

Registration: Cork. Built 1863. 224 tons unspecified.

(Location of loss cited as N57 40.0 W7 21.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

An alternative name of Hermione may be suggested for this vessel.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 September 2005.

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