Maritime disaster

The deaths of 350 people, including many children, in a maritime disaster 165 years ago is to be remembered in a special service today.

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 September 28 1853 the bodies of those who died were buried in two unmarked graves.

The service will be held near the scene of the tragedy.