Maritime record MHG52226 - TOM TELFORD: STAFFIN BAY, TROTTERNISH, SKYE, NORTH MINCH

NG46NE 8002 c. 48 69
N57 38 W6 13
NLO: Staffin Bay [name centred NG 481 691]
Digg [name centred NG 468 697]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
(Classified as lighter, with cargo of bricks: date of loss cited as 19 September 1919). Tom Telford: this vessel sank and was wrecked in Digg Bay, Staffin, Skye.
Registration: British. Built 1844. 28nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N57 39.0 W6 14.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Digg Bay is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to Staffin Bay, a significant indentation into the East coast of the Trotternish peninsula. Digg itself lies inland, to the W of the bay.
Although recorded under the classification of lighter, the cargo and location of loss are consistent with the classification of this vessel as a steam lighter or puffer.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 July 2008. <1>