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Samuels: North Minch
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Samuels: North Minch
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Grey Island; Eilean Glas; Glas Light; Tobermory; Isle Of Gloss Light; Eileanan Glasa; Sound Of Mull; Atlantic; Samuels
Canmore ID 247478
Site Number NG17NW 8001
NGR NG 12 78
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/247478
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Maritime - Western Isles
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NG17NW 8001 unlocated
NLO: Eilean Glas [name: NG 247 947]
Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46].
Formerly entered as NM54NE 8006 a cited location NG c. 595 450 (N56 32.1 W5 54.7).
Foundered 20 September 1850, SAMUELS, schooner. Liverpool to Cronstadt [Kronstadt], I. of Glas Light. (Tobermory?) bearing NE distance 12 miles, foundered. D.h. 7 October 1850. Lloyds List 8 October 1850
Source: PP British Sessional Papers. Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1850 and 1851 (1852 (XLIX.503))
Tobermory, 3rd Oct. The SAMUELS (schooner), Berwick, from Liverpool to Cronstadt, foundered 20th Sept., Isle of Gloss Light bearing NE. about 12 miles; crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,403, London, Tuesday October 8 1850.
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 167).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 20 September 1850). Samuels: this vessel foundered with [the] Isle of Glass light bearing NE at 12 miles.
Registration: Kirkcaldy. Built 1841. 86 tons burthern. Length: 18m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 42.0 W6 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker. It remains uncertain to which of the Glass Islands (or similar names) the account refers; a location around Eileanan Glasa [name: NM 595 450] in the Sound of Mull is also possible. The loss may alternatively fall within the quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Western Isles.
Eilean Glass Lighthouse, Scalpay (NG29SW 1.00) is at NG 24743 94715.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 July 2003.
Loss (20 October 1850)
Foundered 20 September 1850, SAMUELS, schooner. Liverpool to Cronstadt [Kronstadt], I. of Glas Light. (Tobermory?) bearing NE distance 12 miles, foundered. D.h. 7 October 1850. Lloyds List 8 October 1850
Source: PP British Sessional Papers. Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1850 and 1851 (1852 (XLIX.503))
Tobermory, 3rd Oct. The SAMUELS (schooner), Berwick, from Liverpool to Cronstadt, foundered 20th Sept., Isle of Gloss Light bearing NE. about 12 miles; crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,403, London, Tuesday October 8 1850.
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 167).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 20 September 1850). Samuels: this vessel foundered with [the] Isle of Glass light bearing NE at 12 miles.
Registration: Kirkcaldy. Built 1841. 86 tons burthern. Length: 18m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 42.0 W6 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (24 July 2003)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker. It remains uncertain to which of the Glass Islands (or similar names) the account refers; a location around Eileanan Glasa [name: NM 595 450] in the Sound of Mull is also possible. The loss may alternatively fall within the quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Western Isles.
Eilean Glass Lighthouse, Scalpay (NG29SW 1.00) is at NG 24743 94715.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 July 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 12603
Name : SAMUELS
Latitude : 574200
Longitude : 65000
Date Built : 1841
Registration : KIRKCALDY
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 86
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 18
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 20
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1850
Comment : Foundered with Isle of Glass Lt bearing NE at 12 miles.
