Maritime record 13911 - MINNIE HARLEY: PORT NIS, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB56SW 8001 c. 54 63
N58 29 W6 13

NLO: Port Nis [name: NB 540 638].

1st January 1859, MINNIE HARLEY, brigantine, 94 tons, 6 crew, carrying tar etc., foundered, total loss, 2 lives lost, off Port Ness, Island of Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1859 (1860 [2623] LX.501).

Statement by Henry Desmond, seaman of the MINNIE HARLEY, which departed Archangel for Cork carrying spars, tar, and pitch, on 2nd October 1858. Abandoned, after drifting in North Sea, Captain and crew suffering from lack of water and food. One crew member died on board. Kenneth Murray, Merchant, Port of Ness, took Captain and remaining three crew ashore to the Isle of Lewis on 28th December. Captain died ashore and was buried at Swanbost. Vessel was abandoned and believed to have foundered.
Examination on Oath, taken by the Receiver of Wreck at the Port of Stornoway, [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2021).

This loss is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 January 2004.

REPORT DATE: 28/01/2004