Maritime record MHG48217 - Duchess Of Buccleuch: Loch Hourn, Sound Of Sleat

NMRS Report: (04/04/2005)
NG80NW 8003 unlocated

Possibly on map sheets NG71SE, NG81SW, NG80NE or NG90NW.

NLO: Loch Hourn [name centred NG 83 08]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

The DCHS OF BUCCLEUCH, McLeod, from Gothenburg to Killala, was run on shore in Lochhourn, near Stornoway 22d ult., water-logged.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5427, London, Tuesday November 9 1819.

The DUCHESS OF BUCCLEUCH, McLeod, from Gothenburg to Killala, which was on shore near Stornaway [Stornoway], has been got off, and was carried into that harbour 20th ult., with four feet water in her hold.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5429, London, Tuesday November 16 1819.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6049).

(Classifified as brigantine: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as November 1819). Duchess of Buccleugh [Buccleuch]: this vessel stranded near Stornoway. All gone November 1819. Registry close. Broken up?
Registration: Stornoway. Built 1784. 73 tons burthen. Length: 17m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 10 W6 20).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, and the equation of the location of loss with Loch Hourn, Sound of Sleat, remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 March 2005.