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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 836091
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/836091
NC14SW 8001 c. 160 411
N58 19.2 W5 8.5
NLO: Handa Island [name centred NC 136 481]
Badcall Bay [name centred NC 160 411]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].
Formerly entered as NC14NW 8001 at cited location NC c. 13 48 [N58 23 W5 12].
18 January 1890. HEEDFUL. 30 years of Stornoway. B Veritas 5/6 *G2.1 for 4 years from 3/86. Survey 3/86. Wood schooner. 87 ton. 4 men. Master W. Loggie. Owner A.M. Mackenzie, Stornoway. Newcastle on Tyne to Gairloch, Ross. Coal. Wind SE4. Badcall, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1889-90 (1890-91 [C.6468] LXXVI.485).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1528).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 18 January 1890). Heedful: this vessel stranded at Badcall, Sutherland. (Also Badcall at N58 27.25 W5 0.75). Capt. Loggie.
Registration: Stornoway. Built 18690. 92grt. Length: 22m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 19.0 W5 8.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Badcall Bay (on Handa Island) is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name may apply to the prominent bay on the SSE side of island (around NC 139 473). There is, however, a Badcall Bay (name centred NC 160 411) about 7km to the SSE; the townships of Upper and Lower Badcall are at NC 156 420 and NC 165 420 respectively.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 September 2002.
