Jane Hughes: Whiten Head, Atlantic

NC56NW 8001 c. 502 687

N58 34.8 W4 34.6

NLO: Whiten Head or An Ceann Geal [name: NC 502 687]

Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Formerly also entered as NC46SE 8016 [unlocated].

Possibly on map sheet NC46NE.

See also NC46SE 8015 and NC46SE 8017.

18 March 1881, JANE HUGHES, 20 yrs old, of Carnarvon, wooden schooner, 99 tons, 5 crew, Master and Owner W. Pritchard, Menai Bridge, Anglesea [Anglesey], departed Carnarvon for Portsoy, carrying slates, 1 life lost, wind WSW10, stranded, total loss, Whiten Head, Loch Eribol, Sutherlandshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).

Loch Eriboll, March 21, JANE HUGHES is ashore: lost sails and parted both chains: total loss. Cargo might be saved in fine weather.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,874, London, Wednesday March 23 1881.

Dundee, March 22, during the gale today three schooners, the JANE HUGHES, from Aberdeen: ROSE HARRIETTE, from Montrose: and the POLLY PRESTON: all slate laden, from Wales, were driven ashore and wrecked at Loch Eriboll. A boy belonging to the JANE HUGHES was drowned.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,874, London, Wednesday March 23 1881.

Loch Erribol, March 23, 10.10 a.m., on the 17th inst., wrecked at Loch Erribol, JANE HUGHES schooner, of Caernarvon (slates), William Pritchard, from Port Dinorwic for Portsoy: one of the crew drowned: ship a total wreck. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3111).

Dundee, March 22, during the gale today three schooners, the JANE HUGHES, from Aberdeen: ROSE HARRIETTE, from Montrose: and the POLLY PRESTON: all slate laden, from Wales, were driven ashore and wrecked at Loch Eriboll. A boy belonging to the JANE HUGHES was drowned.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,874, London, Wednesday March 23 1881.

Loch Eriboll, March 23, ROSE HARRIETTE schooner, Roberts, of and for Montrose from Wales, with slates, struck on a rock 17th inst., as reported by telegraph, and the hull is much damaged: canvas all lost: crew saved.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,877, London, Saturday March 26 1881.

Helim (near Wick), March 25, ROSA HARRIETTE, Roberts, from Port Dinorwic for Montrose, which struck on rocks in Loch Eriboll, 17th inst., is so much damaged that the tide ebbs and flows in her. The cargo (slates) can be got at low water.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,882, London, Friday April 1 1881.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (nos. 5152-3).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of slates: date of loss cited as 18 March 1881). Jane Hughes: this vessel stranded at Whiten Head. Capt. Pritchard.

Registration: Caernarvon. Built 1861. 99 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 35.0 W4 35.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 December 2006.