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Astarte: Sound Of Harris
Cutter (19th Century)
Site Name Astarte: Sound Of Harris
Classification Cutter (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Caolas Na Hearadh; Atlantic; North Minch; Astarte
Canmore ID 295308
Site Number NF98SE 8007
NGR NF 97 81
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/295308
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Maritime - Western Isles
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NF98SE 8007 unlocated
NLO: Sound of Harris (Caolas na Hearadh) [name centred NF 96 81].
Formerly also entered in error as NF96NW 8008 (unlocated).
22 September 1879, ASTARTE, 15 yrs old, of Southampton, wooden cutter, 53 tons, 8 crew, Master and Owner R. A. Napier, Glasgow, departed Scalpay, Harris, for Glasgow, in ballast, 8 passengers, wind SSE10, stranded, total loss, Sound of Harris, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
ASTARTE yacht, lost in Loch Maddy, Sept. 22 last, is now sunk in seven feet of tenacious mud, and has resisted all efforts of salvors to dislodge her. Attempts to raise her have been abandoned.
Source: General, Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,549, London, Saturday [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2960).
(Classified as wooden cutter, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 September 1879). Astarte: this vessel stranded in the Sound of Harris. Capt. Napier.
Registration: Southampton. Built 1864. 53 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 43.00 W7 5.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. It remains unclear whether this vessel stranded on the N (Harris) or S (Berneray or North Uist) side of the Sound, or on one of the numerous stacks and islands in the Sound.
The primary account of the loss indicates that this vessel was in recreational use, as a 'yacht'.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 July 2008.
Loss (22 September 1879)
22 September 1879, ASTARTE, 15 yrs old, of Southampton, wooden cutter, 53 tons, 8 crew, Master and Owner R. A. Napier, Glasgow, departed Scalpay, Harris, for Glasgow, in ballast, 8 passengers, wind SSE10, stranded, total loss, Sound of Harris, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
ASTARTE yacht, lost in Loch Maddy, Sept. 22 last, is now sunk in seven feet of tenacious mud, and has resisted all efforts of salvors to dislodge her. Attempts to raise her have been abandoned.
Source: General, Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,549, London, Saturday [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2960).
(Classified as wooden cutter, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 September 1879). Astarte: this vessel stranded in the Sound of Harris. Capt. Napier.
Registration: Southampton. Built 1864. 53 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 43.00 W7 5.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (21 July 2008)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. It remains unclear whether this vessel stranded on the N (Harris) or S (Berneray or North Uist) side of the Sound, or on one of the numerous stacks and islands in the Sound.
The primary account of the loss indicates that this vessel was in recreational use, as a 'yacht'.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 July 2008.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5801
Name : ASTARTE
Latitude : 574300
Longitude : 70500
Date Built : 1864
Registration : SOUTHAMPTON
Type : CUTTER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 53
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1879
Comment : Stranded in the Sound of Harris. Capt. Napier
Cargo : BALLAST
