Maritime record 14093 - PIONEER: LOCH BOISDALE, SOUTH UIST, SEA OF THE HEBRIDES

NF81NW 8005 c. 80 18
N57 8 W7 17

Possibly on map sheet NF71NE.

NLO: Loch Baghasdail [name centred NF 802 184].

17 January 1854, PIONEER, of Liverpool, lugger, 17 ton, 3 men, Stornoway to Liverpool, potatoes, wind SSW force 11, thick with rain, value #100, insured, cargo #40, insured #40 at Liverpool. Wrecked. At Loch Boisdale, South Uist, by driving from her anchors on the rocks in a heavy gale. Crew saved. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. Lloyds List. Coastguard Officers.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1854 (1854-55 (75) XXXIV.359)

Stornoway, 30th Jan. The PIONEER, (lugger), Johnston, of and for Liverpool from this port, with potatoes, was lost at Loch Boisdale 17th Jan.; crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,440, London, Monday February 6 1854.

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 497).

(Classified as lugger, with cargo of potatoes: date of loss cited as 17 January 1854). This vessel was driven from anchor and wrecked in Loch Boisdale [Loch Baghasdail].
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 22/08/2003