Maritime record 13699 - ARRAN MAID: LOCH MADDY, NORTH UIST, LITTLE MINCH

NF96NW 8005 unlocated

NLO: Loch nam Madadh (Lochmaddy) [name: NF 918 689]
Loch Maddy (Loch nam Madadh) [name centred NF 931 685].

3 December 1876, ARRAN MAID, 23 yrs old, of Glasgow, wooden schooner, 38 tons, 2 crew, Master A. McPherson, Owner T. McLellan, Loch Boisdale, S. Uist, departed Loch Boisdale, S. Uist, Hebrides, for Kirkwall and Thurso, carrying slates, wind ENE8, stranded, Loch Mady [Loch Maddy], N. Uist, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).

Lochmaddy, N. Uist, 5th Dec., 4.50 p.m., the ARRAN MAID (schr.), McLennan, from Ballachulish to Kirkwall, with slates, drove ashore in Lochmaddy [Loch Maddy], and is in a dangerous position: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,538, London, Wednesday December 6 1876.

General, the ARRAN MAID (schr.), Kirkwall, is on the rocks in Lochmaddy [Loch Maddy], North Uist, abandoned and in a sinking state.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,548, London, Monday December 18 [1876].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2700).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of slates: date of loss cited as 3 December 1876). This vessel stranded at Loch Maddy, in a dangerous position. Capt. McPherson.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 April 2002.

REPORT DATE: 06/05/2004