Maritime record 13743 - WILLIAM FLOUNDERS: SOUTH UIST, ATLANTIC

NF72SE 8002 unlocated

WILLIAM FLOUNDERS, Barge, from Limerick to Liverpool, is totally lost near South Uist. Crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5265, London, Tuesday March 24 1818.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5980).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as wheat and date of loss as 1 March 1818). The William Flounders or, possibly, William Hounders, was stranded in the Bay of Vatersay. Capt. Barge. Registration: Liverpool.
(Location of loss cited as N56 55.5 W7 31 0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The recorded intended route of the vessel suggests that the stranding took place on the Atlantic coast of the island, rather than within the Minch.
It is unclear to which Vatersay island Whittaker refers.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 April 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.

REPORT DATE: 21/02/2005