Aid: Sandwood Sands, North Minch

NC26NW 8003 c. 22 65

N58 32 W5 3

NLO: Sandwood Bay [name centred NC 225 662]

Sandwood Loch [name centred NC 228 642]

Sandwood [name: NC 220 641]

Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].

Possibly on map sheet NC26SW.

18 September 1885, AID, 15 yrs old, not registered, wooden fishing boat, 12 tons, 8 crew. Master and Owner S. McVea, Belfast. Departed Lerwick for Belfast in ballast. Wind WSW10, stranded Sandwood Sands, Sutherlandshire.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1882).

(Classified as wooden fishing vessel, in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 September 1885). Aid: this vessel stranded at Sandwood Sands, Sutherland. Capt. McLeod.

Not registered. Built 1870. 12 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 32.50 W5 3.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Sandwood Sands are not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name presumably applies to the extensive sands that are indicated around the SE side of Sandwood Bay, an extensive, sand-fringed and gently-curving indentation, which extends from NC c. 231 670 to NC c. 228 651.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 December 2003.