Maritime record 13745 - MIC MAC: AIRD AN RUNAIR, NORTH UIST

NF67SE 8001 c. 69 70
N57 36 W7 33

NLO: Aird an Runair [name centred NF 693 707].

Possibly on any of map sheets NF66NE, NF76NW or NF77SW.

26 December 1865, MIC MAC, 515 tons, of Glasgow, total loss, departed Montreal for Glasgow, carrying corn, stranded at Aird Runir, North Uist.
Statement showing the Casualties that occurred on and off the Islands on the Western Coast of Scotland, between 1st December 1865 and 30th June 1866. Wrecking in the Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1866 (1867 [3901] LXIV.235).

Balranald, Lochmaddy, 26th Dec. The MICMAC, McMurchy, of and for Glasgow, from Montreal, with Indian corn and oats, came to anchor off this place this afternoon, having struck heavily a short time before on a rock in the sound of Monach Island. The crew came ashore at 3.30, and report the vessel in six fathoms, and with one inch (?) of water in her hold.
Source: LL, No. 16,140, London, Wednesday, January 3 1866.

Balranald, Lochmaddy, 27th Dec. The MICMAC drove on a reef of rocks during the gale of last night, and is lying on her side, thumping heavily, and a total wreck: it is feared that the cargo is all lost: some of the wreckage has washed ashore.
Source: LL, No. 16,140, London, Wednesday, January 3 1866.

Glasgow, 4th Jan. Nearly 100 barrels of oats have been saved from the MICMAC, McMurchy, from Montreal to this port, wrecked 26th Dec., in Lochmaddy.
Source: LL, No. 16,143, London, Saturday, January 6 1866.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2295).

(Classified as wooden ship, with cargo of corn: date of loss cited as 26 December 1865). This vessel was wrecked at Aird Runir, North Uist.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 18/03/2004