Maritime record 13756 - DEIOPEA: LOCH SGIOPOIRT, SOUTH UIST, SEA OF THE HEBRIDES

NF83NW 8002 c. 83 38
N57 19 W7 16

NLO: Loch Sgiopoirt [name centred NF 942 388].

20 January 1878, DEIOPEA, 13 yrs old, of Chester, wooden brig, 291 tons, 10 crew, Master T. Davies, Owner R. Grandidge, Chester, departed Langesund for Chester, carrying pit props, wind SSW10, stranded, Loch Skiport, Uist Island, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).

Glasgow, 25th Jan., the DEIOPIA (brig), of Chester, Davies, from Langesund to Connah's quay, with timber, was driven ashore at South Uist, 20th Jan.: and was expected to become a total wreck: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,893, London, Monday January 28 1878.

Balranald, Lochmaddy, 28th Jan., 12.50 p.m., the brig DEIOPEA, of and for Chester, from Norway, timber laden, was driven ashore from her anchor at Lochskiport, in South Uist, on the 20th inst., and is likely to become a total wreck: crew saved. Owner Richard Grandidge, Hoole Road, Chester, England. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2852).

(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of pit props: date of loss cited as 20 January 1878). This vessel stranded at Loch Skiport, Uist. Capt. Davies.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 14/05/2004