Maritime record 14118 - TWEEDSIDE: BENBECULA, ATLANTIC

NF84NW 8002 unlocated

29 November 1847. TWEEDSIDE. Stranded at Benbecula.
Source: PP Return from Lloyd's books of Collisions, Accidents and Wrecks of Vessels 1847-50 (1851 (688) LII.1)

Island of Benbicala, 18th Nov.. The TWEEDSIDE, Keal, of and from Hartlepool to Malta, drove on a bank between this place and South Uist, 16th inst., and has sustained some damage to her bottom; and it is feared, unless the weather moderate, she will become a total wreck.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,515, London, Monday November 29 1847.

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 75).

(Name cited as Tweedside and date of loss as 16 November 1847). This vessel stranded between Benbecula and South Uist and is 'expected wreck'.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear whether the vessel was stranded on the Atlantic (W) or the (E) side of the islands.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 July 2003.

REPORT DATE: 15/07/2003