Maritime record 13705 - JAMES A WRIGHT: BALESHARE, NORTH UIST, ATLANTIC

NF76SE 8001 c. 78 61
N57 31 W7 23

Possibly on map sheet NF75NE.

17 November 1877, JAMES A. WRIGHT, 9 yrs old, of USA, wooden ship, 1,273 tons, 18 crew, Master S. H. Morrison, Owner J. W. Marr, Bath, Me., departed Liverpool for Tybee Island, USA, in ballast, wind SW, stranded, Balshare Island, off N. Uist, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).

Lochmaddy, N. Uist, 19th Nov., 11 a.m., the ship JAMES A. WRIGHT, from Liverpool to Savonias (?South West Pass), in ballast, drove ashore on the West side of North Uist on Saturday and lies in a precarious state: crew safe: severe Westerly gales: sails nearly all lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,835, London, Tuesday November 20 1877.

Glasgow, 18th Dec., the JAMES A. WRIGHT, from Liverpool to Savannah in ballast, which went ashore on N. Uist during the gale of 17th Nov., has been sold. [Report received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2840).

(Classified as wooden [full-rigged] ship, in ballast: date of loss cited as 17 November 1877). This vessel stranded on Balshave (?Baleshare) Island. Capt. Morrison.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 14/05/2004