Maritime record 14111 - MAY QUEEN: LOCH BOISDALE, SOUTH UIST, SEA OF THE HEBRIDES

NF81NW 8006 c. 83 15
N57 7 W7 14

Possibly on map sheet NF81SW.

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

15 June 1867, MAY QUEEN, 1 yr old, smack, 20 tons, 5 crew, in ballast, collision, total loss, 1 life lost, 2 miles S. of Loch Boisdale [Lochboisdale], Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1867 (1867-68 [4055] LXIII.421).

Greenock, 24th June. The MAY QUEEN (smack), of Ayr, sunk, 22nd June, near Lochboisdale, after collision with the VENUS (lugger), of Rosehearty: crew, except 1 man, saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,599, London, Wednesday, June 26 1867.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2329).

(Classified as smack: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 22 June 1867). This vessel was in collision and sank near Loch Boisdale [Lochboisdale].
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 19/03/2004