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Heedful: Badcall Bay, North Minch
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Heedful: Badcall Bay, North Minch
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Handa Island; Cape Wrath; Atlantic; Heedful
Canmore ID 220958
Site Number NC14SW 8001
NGR NC 160 411
NGR Description NC c. 160 411
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
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.
Loss (18 January 1890)
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.
Note (3 September 2002)
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.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4172
Name : HEEDFUL
Latitude : 581900
Longitude : 50800
Date Built : 1860
Registration : STORNOWAY
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 92
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 22
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1890
Comment : Stranded Badcall , Sutherland. (Also Badcall at 5827.25/0500.75). Capt. Loggie
Cargo : COAL
