Maritime record 14082 - TELESCOPE: HASKEIR ISLAND, ATLANTIC

NF68NW 8002 c. 61 81
N57 41 W7 41

Formerly entered as NF86NW 8003 (unlocated).

NLO: Haskeir Island (Eilean Hasgeir) [name: NF 617 822].

Benbecula, near Dunvegan, 6th Jan. `Part of the wreck of a vessel, supposed to be the TELESCOPE, of Dartmouth, was driven on shore 6th ult., on the Island of Heisker, near North Uist: three casks of whisy marked `Glasgow Distillery Company¿ floated on shore there at the same time.¿
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6499, London, Friday January 15 1830

Greenock, 16th Jan. `The TELESCOPE, Codner, which sailed from the Clyde for Sligo, on the 26th Nov., has been wrecked near North Uist, and it is feared the crew were drowned.¿
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6500, London, Tuesday January 19 1830.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6679).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of whisky: date of loss cited as 6 December 1829). Wreckage on Heisker, North Uist. Capt. Codner.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Possibly on map sheet NF58NE. This group of rock stacks extends as far as Hasgeir Eagach [name: NF 815 598].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 April 2002.

REPORT DATE: 28/10/2004