Marika: Oronsay, Atlantic

NR38NE 8007 unlocated

NLO: Oronsay [name centred NR 355 886]

Colonsay [name centred NR 37 93].

Possibly on map sheet NR38NW.

17 March 1861, MARIKA, 273 tons, 14 crew supposed, in ballast, stranded, total loss, supposed 14 lives lost, Oronsay, Isle of Colonsay.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1861 (1862 [3028] LIV.845).

Portaskaig [Port Askaig], Islay, 28th Mar. Part of a vessel was discovered on the morning of the 18th Mar., lying bottom upwards on the rocks at Oronsay, island of Colonsay: the shore was strewn with small pieces of the wreck, and even her masts and yards came ashore in fragments: nothing has been found to indicate her name but a few boards, which, put together, read as 'MARARIKA'.

Source: LL, No. 14,660, London, Monday April 1 1861

Greenock, 1st Apl. [recd., 1st., per M.T. at 1.5]. The MARIKA, Larsson, bound to Gothenburg, left port here 5th Mar., remained windbound at the tail of the bank 14 days, and proceeded.

Source: LL, No. 14,660, London, Monday April 1 1861

Greenock, 1st Apl. The MARIKA, Larsson, hence to Gothenburg, which was reported to-day as having sailed on the 5th Mar., and remained at the tail of the bank 14 days, was taken by the pilot, it appears, into Carrickfergus on the 13th.

Source: LL, No. 14,661, London, Tuesday April 2 1861.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2130).

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 March 2004.