Maritime record MHG47800 - Rachel: North Minch

NMRS Report: (13/01/2005)
NB83SW 8004 unlocated

NLO: Point of Stoer [name: NC 022 356]
Lochinver [name: NC 093 225].

Loch Inver [Lochinver], Sept. 28, 8.50 a.m., Norwegian barque REACHED (?RACHEL), 235 tons, master N. Aamoodt, from Ayr for Christiania (coal laden), was abandoned 10 miles off Stour Head [Point of Stoer] in a sinking condition: crew (nine hands) saved by ship's boats, and landed at Stour Head Lighthouse at 12 midnight on 24th.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,036, London, Thursday September 29 1881.

Loch Inver [Lochinver], Sept. 27, RACHEL, Norwegian barque, Aamodt, from Ayr for Christiania [Oslo] (coal), was the vessel abandoned in a sinking condition (not the REACHED, as telegraphed). [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5203).

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 November 2004.