Annie Jane, a ship taking 450 emigrants from Liverpool to Canada, broke up on rocks in a storm off Vatersay in the Western Isles. Following the disaster on 28 September 1853, the bodies of those ...

On Vatersay, connected to Barra by a causeway since 1991, the islanders are taking a fairly laid-back approach to the centenary, says Fiona MacLeod, a descendent of one of the raiders, ...

In 1909 though, the Congested Districts Board bought Vatersay, which they then divided into 58 crofts. Then in 1912, the last inhabitants of Mingulay left their homes, and settled on Vatersay. Today, ...

Barra and its neighboring island, Vatersay, were recorded as having 1,264 residents in the most recent census carried out in 2011. In comparison, Glasgow has an estimated population of 596,000, ...

Vatersay has been the site of several shipwrecks, the most tragic of which was the Annie Jane, an immigrant ship bound for Montreal, Canada in 1853 that struck rocks.

Vatersay, in the Outer Hebrides, is 582 miles – or 930km – from Jersey. He later contacted EE on X to ask why the message had been sent.

One of which is found in Vatersay in the Scottish Hebrides. The Vatersay Hall Cafe Campsite is a rare holiday spot that has direct access to a beach with clean white sand and clear blue waters.

The four-year project, “Muir is Tir (Land and Sea) – Adapting to Coastal Change on Barra and Vatersay”, will be led by ...

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The deaths of 350 people, including many children, in a maritime disaster 165 years ago is to be remembered in a special service on Sunday. Annie Jane, a ship taking 450 emigrants from Liverpool ...

Rev Dr Lindsay Schluter said Vatersay was 'overwhelmed' by the scale of the disaster. The Annie Jane, a three-mast wooden merchant ship carrying a heavy cargo of iron, had made an earlier attempt ...