Maritime record MHG50372 - Arica: Loch Eynort, Skye, Sea Of The Hebrides

NMRS Report: (27/02/2007 12:02:04)
NG32SE 8006 c. 35 23
N57 13 W6 23

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

Possibly on map sheet NG32SW.

Lochenort [Loch Eynort] (S.Uist), 18th May. The ARICA (brigantine), of Liverpool, Cubbin, from Newcastle to Limerick, with coals, put in here during thick weather on the 14th May, and, in taking the harbour, struck on a rock, filled, and sunk in a very bad position: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,335, London, Thursday, June 4 1863.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10397).

(Classified as wooden barquentine, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 14 May 1863). Arica: this vessel sank in Lochenort [Loch Eynort], South Uist. Capt. Cubbin.
Registration: Liverpool. Built 1857. 95 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N57 13.25 W7 17.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. No built harbour is apparent at Loch Eynort.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2007.