Maritime record MHG50334 - Lowick: Loch Eynort, Skye, Sea Of The Hebrides

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 35 22 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NG32SE
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (05/03/2007 11:17:51)
NG32SE 8005 c. 35 23
N57 13 W6 23

Possibly on map sheet NG32SW.

NLO: Loch Eynort [name centred NG 36 24].

Greenock, 29th Oct. The ISLEMAN (s.s.) arrived here on the 27th with 11 of the crew of a ship belonging to Shields, which was wrecked in Loch Einort [Eynort], S. Uist, 23rd Oct.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 15,775, London, Tuesday, November 1 [1864].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10704).

Locheynort [Loch Eynort], South Uist, 22nd Oct. The LOWICK (barque), Corrigall, of and for Shields, from Londonderry, in ballast, drove on a rock here in a heavy gale 19th Oct., filled, and is now under water: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,783, London, Thursday, November 10 1864.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10713).

(Classified as barque: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 23 October 1864). Lowick: this vessel was wrecked at Loch Eynort, South Uist. Capt. Corriegill. Registration: shields.
(Location of loss cited as N57 13.25 W7 17.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 286260.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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