Unknown: Barra, Atlantic
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Barra, Atlantic
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Barraigh; Sea Of The Hebrides
Canmore ID 293276
Site Number NF60SE 8029
NGR NF
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Western Isles
- Parish Maritime - Western Isles
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NF60SE 8029 unlocated
NLO: Barra (Barraigh): [name centred NF 67 02].
See also NF70NW 8007.
Possibly on map sheets NF60NW, NF60NE, NF60SW, NF70SW, NF70SE, NL69NW, or NL79NW.
Formerly entered as NF60NE 8013 (unlocated).
Greenock, 26th Jan. The ISLEMAN (s), arrived here yesterday from the NW Highlands, reports that the ALFARETTA (barque), of Miramichi, from Dalhousie to the United Kingdom, which was abandoned 2nd Jan., has come on shore on Barra. She also reports two other vessels ashore at the same place, 24th Jan., abandoned and apparently waterlogged.
Source: LL, No. 16,161, London, Saturday, January 27 1866.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10974).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 24 January 1866). Unknown: two of three vessels ashore on Barra, the other being the Alfaretta [NF70NW 8007].
(Location of loss cited as N57 0.0 W7 35.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. It remains unclear whether the vessel stranded on the eastern (Sea of the Hebrides) or western (Atlantic) shore of this extensive island.
The location of loss that is cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 March 2008.
Evidence Of Loss (24 January 1866)
Greenock, 26th Jan. The ISLEMAN (s), arrived here yesterday from the NW Highlands, reports that the ALFARETTA (barque), of Miramichi, from Dalhousie to the United Kingdom, which was abandoned 2nd Jan., has come on shore on Barra. She also reports two other vessels ashore at the same place, 24th Jan., abandoned and apparently waterlogged.
Source: LL, No. 16,161, London, Saturday, January 27 1866.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10974).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 24 January 1866). Unknown: two of three vessels ashore on Barra, the other being the Alfaretta [NF70NW 8007].
(Location of loss cited as N57 0.0 W7 35.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (11 March 1866)
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. It remains unclear whether the vessel stranded on the eastern (Sea of the Hebrides) or western (Atlantic) shore of this extensive island.
The location of loss that is cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 March 2008.
