Editing Vatersay (section)

==Wrecks==
[[File:Annie Jane.jpg|thumb|left|Monument to the wreck of the ''Annie Jane'', overlooking the West Bay]]
In September 1853, the ''Annie Jane'', a three-masted migrant ship out of [[Liverpool]] bound for [[Montreal]], Quebec, Canada, struck rocks off West Beach during a storm. Within ten minutes the ship began to founder and break up, casting 450 people into the raging sea. In spite of the conditions, islanders tried to rescue the passengers and crew.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.isleofvatersay.com/Vatersay2chist.html| title=Annie Jane Memorial – the story| publisher=Isle of Vatersay| access-date=2008-11-06| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121022423/http://isleofvatersay.com/Vatersay2chist.html| archive-date=21 November 2008}}</ref>

There were only a few survivors. A small cairn and monument marks the site where the bodies recovered from the sea were buried. An inscription reads:

<blockquote>On 28th September 1853 the ship Annie Jane with emigrants from Liverpool to Quebec was totally wrecked in this bay and threefourths of the crew and passengers numbering about 350 men women and children were drowned and their bodies interred here.</blockquote>

Two Chinese seamen from the SS ''Idomeneus'', which sank on 28 September 1917, are also buried somewhere near the monument. There is a commemorative headstone in Cuier Churchyard.<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_reports.aspx?cemetery=34227&mode=1 CWGC Dept of Honour]</ref>

The remains of a [[Catalina flying boat]] that crashed on the slopes of Heiseabhal Beag in 1944 lie in a stream bed near the shore.<ref>[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/85066/details/consolidated+catalina+vatersay+heishival+beg/ "Consolidated Catalina: Vatersay, Heishival Beg"]. Canmore. Retrieved 13 November 2011.</ref>
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