Maritime record 14138 - VALENCIA: LINGREABHAGH, HARRIS, LITTLE MINCH

NG08SE 8001 c. 06 84
N57 45 W6 57

Possibly on map sheet NG08NE.

NLO: Lingreabhagh [name centred NG 066 846]
Eilean Lingreabhagh [name centred NG 066 843]
Caolas na Hearadh (Sound of Harris): name centred NF 96 81.

5 May 1886, VALENCIA, 2 yrs old, registered Norway, Lloyds 100 A.1., last surveyed 10/85, iron steamship, 384 tons, 14 crew. Master I. Lund, Owner A. Schjelderup, Bergen. Departed Troon for Bergen carrying coal. Wind S and SSW, stranded Lingerbay, South Harris, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1925).

(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 5 May 1886). This vessel stranded at Lingerbay [Lingreabhagh], South Harris, or on Lingren Island [Eilean Lingreabhagh].
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 18/05/2004