Maritime record MHG50357 - Hermann Helbmanns: Little Minch

NMRS Report: (20/02/2007 13:30:57)
NG15NE 8002 unlocated

NLO: Dunvegan Head [name: NG 176 568]
Loch nam Madadh (Lochmaddy) [name: NF 918 689]
Loch Maddy (Loch nam Madadh) [name centred NF 931 685].

The War. Captures. A report received this morning from Stornoway, states that the HERMANN HELBMANNS (?)(Pruss. barq.), which left Scapa, Orkney Islands, a few days previously was blown up off Dunvegan Head, the following morning, by a French man-of-war.
Source, LL, No. 17,656, London, Friday, November 18 1870.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11871).

Glasgow, 28th Nov. Last week some wreck, evidently from a vessel which had been blown to pieces, washed ashore at Loch Maddy [Lochmaddy].
Source, LL, No. 17,666, London, Wednesday, November 30 1870.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11880).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 17 November 1870). Hermann Helbmanns: unconfirmed report 'blown up by privateer' off Dunvegan. Loch Maddy [Lochmaddy] wreckage on 28th.
(Location of loss cited as N57 35.0 W6 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The equation suggested by Whittaker with wreckage at Lochmaddy remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 February 2007.