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Esinagh: Atlantic
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Esinagh: Atlantic
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Erinagh; 'colonsay Or Isle Ornsay, Se Point Of Skye'; Sound Of Sleat; Colonsay; Sea Of The Hebrides
Canmore ID 286516
Site Number NG61SE 8002
NGR NG 68 11
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/286516
- Council Highland
- Parish Sleat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG61SE 8002 unlocated
NLO: Ornsay [name centred NG 710 127]
Colonsay [name centred NR 37 93]
Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
Formerly also entered as NG71SW 8020 at cited location NG c. 710 127 [N57 8.9 W5 47.2].
Greenock, 17th Sept [1864]. The North Highland steamer which arrived here yesterday reports that on the 12th Sept., the headboard of a vessel bearing the name 'ESINAGH' in gilt letters on a green ground, and several deals, quite new and apparently not long in the water, were washed ashore on Colonsay. A ship's boat, bearing no name, painted black, was picked up a short distance from the shore.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 15,738, London, Monday, September 19 1864.
Glasgow, 17th Sept. The ISLEMAN (North Highland steamer), which arrived at Greenock 15th Sept., reports that on the 8th, the head-board of a vessel, marked 'ESINAGH' in gilt letters on a green ground, was washed ashore on Isle Ornsay, the SE extremity of the Isle of Skye. Later in the day several portions of wreck were washed ashore, the wood of which was quite new and apparently not long in the water. On the 13th a small boat, newly painted, was picked up near the shore, and subsequently portions of seamen's broken chests and a woman's petticoat were found on the beach, newly washed ashore. Next [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10645).
(No classification or cargo specified: date cited as 12 September 1864). Erinagh: wreckage and nameboard on Colonsay or Isle Ornsay, SE point of Skye.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1888. 13 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 8.0 W5 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the reported location of discovery of wreckage. The vessel presumably foundered offshore, possibly beyond Scottish waters.
The date cited by Whittaker is presumably that of the reported discovery of wreckage.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 February 2007.
Evidence Of Loss (12 September 1864)
Greenock, 17th Sept [1864]. The North Highland steamer which arrived here yesterday reports that on the 12th Sept., the headboard of a vessel bearing the name 'ESINAGH' in gilt letters on a green ground, and several deals, quite new and apparently not long in the water, were washed ashore on Colonsay. A ship's boat, bearing no name, painted black, was picked up a short distance from the shore.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 15,738, London, Monday, September 19 1864.
Glasgow, 17th Sept. The ISLEMAN (North Highland steamer), which arrived at Greenock 15th Sept., reports that on the 8th, the head-board of a vessel, marked 'ESINAGH' in gilt letters on a green ground, was washed ashore on Isle Ornsay, the SE extremity of the Isle of Skye. Later in the day several portions of wreck were washed ashore, the wood of which was quite new and apparently not long in the water. On the 13th a small boat, newly painted, was picked up near the shore, and subsequently portions of seamen's broken chests and a woman's petticoat were found on the beach, newly washed ashore. Next [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10645).
(No classification or cargo specified: date cited as 12 September 1864). Erinagh: wreckage and nameboard on Colonsay or Isle Ornsay, SE point of Skye.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1888. 13 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 8.0 W5 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (19 February 2007)
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the reported location of discovery of wreckage. The vessel presumably foundered offshore, possibly beyond Scottish waters.
The date cited by Whittaker is presumably that of the reported discovery of wreckage.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 February 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11491
Name : ERINAGH
Latitude : 570800
Longitude : 55000
Loss Day : 12
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1864
Comment : Wreckage and nameboard on Colonsay or Isle Ornsay, SE point of Skye
