Archaeology Notes
Event ID 822657
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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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.