Maritime record 13781 - DE FRANCE: UISINIS, SOUTH UIST, SEA OF THE HEBRIDIES

NF83SE 8001 c. 85 33
N57 17 W7 13

NLO: Uisinis [name: NF 865 354]
Bagh Uisinis [name: NF 853 330].

Possibly on map sheet NF85SW.

17 January 1887. DE FRANCE. 5 years of Norway. Iron steamship. 528 ton. 14 crew. Master H. Brun. Owner P.G. Halvorsen, Bergen, Norway. Liverpool to Newcastle on Tyne. Ballast and 2 passengers. 16 dead. Ushinish, South Uist.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1886-87 (1888 [C.5479] XC.735).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1780).

(Classified as iron steamship, in ballast; date of loss cited as 17 January 1887). This vessel stranded 1 mile S of Ushinish lighthouse.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 08/12/2003