Maritime record MHG52178 - MERSY: EILEAN AN ROIN MOR, NORTH MINCH

NC15NE 8004 c. 17 58
N58 28 W5 8
NLO: Eilean an Roin Beag [name: NC 173 584]
Eilean an Roin Mor [name: NC 180 587]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 9 September 1878). Mersy: this vessel stranded on Roan Island (Island Dean?), ten miles SW of Cape Wrath. Capt. Mencar.
Registration: Fowey. Built 1839. 188 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N58 28.50 W5 8.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear whether the vessel stranded on Eilean an Roin Beag or Eilean an Roin Mor; the latter is significantly larger, and is preferred accordingly.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 July 2008. <1>