Maritime record 13660 - DUEN: BALESHARE, SOUTH UIST, SOUND OF ERISKAY

NF71SE 8004 c. 79 14
N57 6 W7 18

Possibly on map sheet NF89SW.

Formerly entered in error as NF79SE 8001.

NLO: Caolas Eirosgaigh [name centred NF 799 133].

28 September 1853, DUEN, of Christiansand, sloop, 40 ton, 4 men, Christiansand to Liverpool, deals, wind W force 9, stormy, insured at Christiansand, cargo insured at London, wrecked. South Uist, on the north side of the Sound of Eriskay, by stress of weather. Lloyds Agent.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1853 (1854 (337) XLII.647)

4 October 1853, DUEN, of Christiansand [see above CB], sloop, wind W force 9, squally, wrecked, South Uist, in the neighbourhood of Baleshare, by stress of weather. Lloyds List. Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1853 (1854 (337) XLII.647)

Poulchar, South Uist, 4th Oct.. The DUEN (sloop), of Christiansund, has been [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 458).

Baleshare is not noted on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map; the location cited is essentially tentative and the loss may have occurred on map sheet NF89SW. This loss is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2003.

REPORT DATE: 21/08/2003