Eliza: Ornsay Harbour, Sound Of Sleat

NG71SW 8006 c. 705 128

N57 8.9 W5 47.7

NLO: Ornsay [name centred NG 710 127]

Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09]

Skye [name centred NG 45 35].

See also NG71SW 8005.

Location formerly entered as NG c. 710 127 [N57 8.9 W5 47.2].

Isle Ornsay, 23d Sept. 'Yesterday evening a heavy gale came on suddenly form the South. Four vessels in attempting the harbor, struck on the rocks at the back of the Island. Two of them got off immediately, but the HENRY & WILLIAM ALLAN, from Aberdeen, for Corpack [Corpach], is totally wrecked, and the ELIZA, McClure, from Orkney to Glasgow, it is feared will share the same fate, as the gale continues.' [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7090).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 22 September 1835). Eliza: this vessel was wrecked at Isle Ornsay. Capt. Allan. Registration: British.

(Location of loss cited as N57 8.0 W5 47.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Ornsay harbour is presumably the area between Ornsay (to the SE) and the island of Skye (to the W and NW). The 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map notes harbour [NAT] around NG 705 128.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 June 2004.