Maritime record 13829 - CHARLES AND ELLEN: LOCHMADDY, NORTH UIST, LITTLE MINCH

NF96NW 8010 c. 92 68
N57 36 W7 9

NLO: Loch nam Madadh (Lochmaddy) [name: NF 918 689]
Loch Maddy (Loch nam Madadh) [name centred NF 931 685]
Caolas na Hearadh (Sound of Harris): name centred NF 96 81.

CHARLES & ELLEN, three-masted schooner, of Barrow, Renney, from Iceland for Chester, in ballast, drove ashore from her anchorage at Lochmaddy, during a terrific SSW gale yesterday (Oct. 1). The vessel is lying on her beam ends on a rock and is likely to become a total wreck: crew saved. (Lochmaddy, North Uist, Oct. 2, 8 p.m.).
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,351, London, Wednesday October 4 1882.

CHARLES & ELLEN, 3-masted schooner, of Barrow, J. F. Bennet master, from Iceland for Liverpool, in ballast, reported as ashore at Lochmaddy, with bottom [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5376).

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 February 2005.

REPORT DATE: 03/02/2005