Maritime record 14051 - HOPE: UIST

NB86NW 8001 unlocated

The HOPE, Death, from New Brunswick to Liverpool, is wrecked on the Isle of Uist, Scotland. Part of the cargo saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4237, London, Tuesday March 15 1808.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5610).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss citedas January 1822). Fame: this vessel was wrecked on South Uist.
Registration: Whitehaven. 140 tons burthen.
(Location of loss cited as N57 15 W7 30).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is entirely arbitrary. It is unclear whether the loss occurred on the Atlantic coast or within the Minch (Little Minch or Sea of the Hebrides).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 June 2002.

REPORT DATE: 11/02/2005