Maritime record 13680 - DERWENT: LOCH CARNAN, SOUTH UIST, LITTLE MINCH

NF84SW 8002 c. 83 43
N57 22 W7 16

NLO: Loch Carnan [name centred NF 827 436]
Gasaidh [name: NF 841 432].

19 June 1865, DERWENT, SS, of London, 432 tons, Benjamin Buck, Master, returning from the Baltic carrying wheat, stranded on a sunken rock off the Island of South Uist, became a total loss. Inquiry held at Greenwich. Part III: Precis of Special Inquiries into Casualties, ordered by the Board of Trade during the Year 1865.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1865 (1866 [3716] LXV.507).

Telegram from Glasgow states that the DERWENT (s.s.), of about 300 tons, is ashore, stern resting on rocks: on Glash Island, Loch Carrnan, South Uist.
Source: LL, No. 15,974, London, Thursday, June 22 1865.

North Uist, 20th June. The DERWENT (s.s.), of London, Buck, from Danzig to London, with wheat, got on a rock at the entrance of Loch Carnan, South Uist, yesterday, where she remains fast with her bow only above water. She appears to have broken in two near the funnel, and it is feared will go to pieces the first bad weather. Part of the machinery, stores, &c., landed, and a small part of the cargo saved in a dry state, but the remainder is totally lost, and there is not much [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2248).

(Classified as steamship, with cargo of wheat; date of loss cited as 19 June 1865). This vessel stranded on Glash Isle, Loch Carrnan [Carnan], South Uist. Capt. Buck. Expected wreck.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Glash Isle is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. It is possibly to be equated with the island of Gasaidh, at the mouth of the loch.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 March 2004.

REPORT DATE: 17/03/2004