Maritime record 13910 - MAZEPPA: LEWIS

NB35NE 8022 unlocated

4 February 1854, MAZEPPA, Liverpool to Geelong, general cargo, 10 supposed dead. Wrecked. At Isle of Lewis. The after part of the hull was washed ashore at Malista Uig, and broke up, portions of her cargo were also washed Stranded. Lloyds List. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1854 (1854-55 (75) XXXIV.359)

Stornoway, 11th Feb. Part of the hull of a vessel named the MAZEPPA, bottom up, was cast ashore at Mailsta Uig on the 4th Feb., and has since gone to pieces; a small part of the cargo is strewed along the coast of Lewes and Harris, it consists of assorted wares for the Australian market in a damaged state; also two casks of brandy marked 'J. & F. Martell, M.L.', and 14 boxes of cheese 'S. H. & Co.'. (Mem. - The MAZEPPA, Jones, sailed from Liverpool 16th Jan., for [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 506).

(Classified as wooden brig with general cargo: date of loss cited as 27 January 1854). Wreckage was washed ashore at Malista Uig, Lewis.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is entirely arbitrary. The location of Malista Uig is not noted in any of the available gazetteers, and it is unclear whether this vessel was lost on the W (Atlantic) or E (North Minch) side of the island.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 August 2003.

REPORT DATE: 29/06/2004