Noel: Hynish, Tiree, Atlantic

NL93NE 8002 c. 986 393

N56 27 W6 53.5

NLO: Hynish [name: NL 985 392]

Tiree [name centred NM 00 45].

Formerly entered (unlocated) as NM04SE 8007.

18 December 1865, NOEL, 11 yrs old, brigantine, 135 tons, 8 crew, departed Newfoundland for Greenock, carrying fish and seal skins, stranded, total loss, 1 life lost, wind S8, Island of Tyree [Tiree], Co. of Argyle [Argyll].

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1865 (1866 [3716] LXV.507).

NOEL, of St John's, N.B., total loss, stranded on Island of Tyree [Tiree].

Statement showing the Casualties that occurred on and off the Islands on the Western Coast of Scotland, between 1st December 1865 and 30th June 1866.Wrecking in the Hebrides.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1866 (1867 [3901] LXIV.235).

Greenock, 27th Dec. The NOEL (brigtne.), of and from St. John's, Nfld., for the Clyde, was totally lost on the island of Tyree [Tiree], 25th Dec.: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 16,134, London, Wednesday, December 27 1865.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2241).

(Classified as brigantine, with cargo of fish: date of loss cited as 18 December 1865). Noel: this vessel was wrecked at Hianish [Hynish] Harbour, Tiree.

Registration: American. 135 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N56 27.0 W6 54.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Hynish harbour (NL93NE 9.00) is centred around NL 98659 39304.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 May 2008.