Minerva: Atlantic

NC27SE 8004 c. 264 744

N58 37.4 W4 59.4

NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]

Sandwood [name: NC 220 641]

Butt of Lewis [name: NB 519 665]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Location formerly entered as NC c. 26 74 [N58 37 W4 60].

Sandwood, near Cape Wrath, 30th Dec. A vessel has driven ashore on the rocks East of Cape Wrath, and some barrels of Archangel tar have drifted ashore: nothing known of the crew.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,962, London, Monday January 3 1859.

Karvack (Cape Wrath), 21st Dec [1858]. A derelict schooner of about 100 tons, hull black with a red stripe, laden with tar, and a deckload of spars, drove ashore near this place from the N.W. during the afternoon of 29th Dec., and went to pieces.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,965, London, Thursday January 6 1859.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9602).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of tar and timber: date of loss cited as 29 December 1858). Minerva: this vessel was wrecked E of Cape Wrath after being abandoned off the Butt of Lewis. Registration: Cork.

(Location of loss cited as N58 37.5 W4 59.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker. Cape Wrath Lighthouse (NC27SE 3.00) is at NC 25955 74735.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 November 2006.