Maritime record 14150 - LAWRENCE O'CONNOR DOYLE: SKERINOE ROCK, NORTH MINCH

NG29SW 8010 unlocated

Possibly on map sheet NG49NW.

NLO: Eilean Glas [name: NG 247 947].

Foundered. 9 March 1850. LAWRENCE O'CONNOR DOYLE of Glasgow, Schooner, Liverpool to Apenrade. 8pm, 2 lives lost, ?, struck on a rock 6 miles off the, and shortly after went down. Mate and crew took to boat and were 8 hours before they reached land, when Mate died from fatigue and cold. Crew taken into Glasgow by mail packet MARY JANE from Stornoway. Johnston = Master (drowned). Shipping and Mercantile Gazette 16 March 1850.
Source: PP British Sessional Papers. Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1850 and 1851 (1852 (XLIX.503))

9 Mar 1850, LAURENCE (sic) O' CONNOR DOYLE, schooner, 5 crew, unknown cargo, stranded, total loss, 2 lives lost, on the Lewis. Table 8, Wrecks and Casualties (exclusive of Collisions) occasioning Loss of Life during the Years 1851 to 1860.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1860 (1861 [2811] LVIII.335)

Glasgow, 15th Mar. The LAWRENCE O' CONNOR DOYLE, of this port, Johnston, from Liverpool to Apenrade, struck on a rock six miles off the Lewis, on the 9th March, and shortly afterwards went down; master drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,229, London, Monday March 18 1850

Stornoway, 13th March. A schooner, supposed to be from Liverpool, laden with salt, was seen sunk on the Skerina Rock 10th March, with her mast heads visible at low water; the crew, who report the master to have been drowned, have landed and proceeded to Tobermory.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,232, London, Thursday March 21 1850

Stornoway, 19th Mar. The schooner observed 10th Mar., sunk on the Skerinoe Rock, proves to have been the LAWRANCE O' CONNOR DOYLE, from Liverpool to Apenrade. The wreck has been towed into a creek near the Isle of Glass Lighthouse; the hull & spars are very much damaged.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,234, London, Saturday March 23 1850,

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 122).

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary and the loss is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998). Skerinoe (Skerina) Rock cannot be located from the available map evidence, but the reference to its lying 6 miles off Lewis may suggest that it falls within the Shiant Islands group (centred NG 42 98). It remains uncertain whether the vessel sank at the point of stranding or was successfully recovered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 July 2003.

REPORT DATE: 22/07/2003