A granite obelisk overlooking West Bay on the west coast of the island of Vatersay in the Outer Hebrides, the Annie Jane Memorial marks the burial site of 350 individuals who died when the three-masted Annie Jane was wrecked in the bay on 28th September 1853. She was conveying emigrants from Liverpool to Montreal in Canada and was lost when the ship's captain, William Mason, mistook West Bay for the shelter of Vatersay Sound, a short distance to the north, during a severe storm.
The inscription reads:
'On 28th Sepr 1853 the ship "Annie Jane" with emigrants from Liverpool to Quebec was totally wrecked in this bay and threefourths [sic] of the crew and passengers numbering about 350 men women and children were drowned and their bodies interred here'.
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