Shipwrecks
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Family history and story about Clanvurich Staoligeary and accompanying verse, 29 October 1872
Story about Nighean Mhic Gillechalum Rarsay, 23 March 1871
Story probably collected from John Pearson or John MacPherson, Ceanntangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, Historical tale about NIghean Mhic Gillechaluim Rarsay or the daughter of MacLeod of Raasay/Ratharsair, who drowned a ship through witchcraft. Aged only 18, she was bled to death by her two brothers, both doctors, at her father's request, on the grounds that she was 'worse than Nic a Phie Cholasay' [MacPhee of Colbhasa/Colonsay. The brothers afterwards went to India.
Story about son of MacPhee of Colonsay and how he came to live in Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, 23 March 1871
Story about Vikings shipwrecked on Mollacag, 23 May 1869
Story collected from Roderick MacNeil, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay which tells how a Long Lochlannach [Viking ship] was broken on a rock called Mollacag at Airghrian [possibly Àird Ghrèin] about '120 or 60 years ago' [c1750 or c1810 or c1710, if 160 years ago is meant]. The gullies filled up with the bodies. The females were drowned, their gold taken away and they were refused permission 'to build in the sea'. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story relating to the shipwreck of the vessel 'Harmony', 1867
Wools from textiles in the "Mary Rose", a sixteenth-century English warship, 1984
Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1984. Volume 18 of 19.