Maritime record MHG46421 - Samuels: North Minch

NMRS Report: (18/04/2005)
NG57NE 8002 unlocated

NLO: Eilean Glas [name: NG 247 947]
Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46].

Formerly entered as NM54NE 8006 a cited location NG c. 595 450 (N56 32.1 W5 54.7).

Foundered 20 September 1850, SAMUELS, schooner. Liverpool to Cronstadt [Kronstadt], I. of Glas Light. (Tobermory?) bearing NE distance 12 miles, foundered. D.h. 7 October 1850. Lloyds List 8 October 1850
Source: PP British Sessional Papers. Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1850 and 1851 (1852 (XLIX.503))

Tobermory, 3rd Oct. The SAMUELS (schooner), Berwick, from Liverpool to Cronstadt, foundered 20th Sept., Isle of Gloss Light bearing NE. about 12 miles; crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,403, London, Tuesday October 8 1850.

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 167).

(Classified as schooner: date of loss cited as 20 September 1850). This vessel foundered with the Isle of Glass light bearing NE at 12 miles.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Whittaker. It remains uncertain to which of the Glass Islands (or similar names) the account refers; a location around Eileanan Glasa [name: NM 595 450] in the Sound of Mull is also possible. The loss may alternatively fall within the quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Western Isles.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 July 2003.
I G Whittaker 1998.