Maritime record 14137 - ARGONAUT: BORNISH, SOUTH UIST, ATLANTIC

NF73SW 8001 c. 72 30
N57 15 W7 26

NLO: Tobha Bornais [name: NF 736 300].

Possibly on map sheet NF72NW.

8 January 1866, ARGONAUT, 1,078 tons, of Greenock, partial loss, departed Newfoundland for Port Glasgow, carrying timber, dismasted at Bornish, South 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).

North Uist, 11th Jan. The ARGONAUT (ship), of Greenock, McKenzie, from St. John, N.B., with timber, went ashore on Bornish, South Uist, 9th Jan. She is dismasted and had been waterlogged for some time previously. The vessel must become a total wreck where she lies, but it is hoped that the cargo may be saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,152, London, Wednesday, January 17 1866.

Greenock, 5th Feb. The cargo of the ARGONAUT, McKenzie, from St. John, N.B., which went ashore at Barra 9th Jan., is being discharged.
Source: LL, No. 16,170, London, Wednesday, February 7 1866.

Greenock, 21st Feb. The ARGONAUT, McKenzie, from St. John, N.B., stranded at South Uist, 9th Jan., has parted in two at the main hatch. The after half had washed ashore, and the timber and deals were scattered on the beach. The fore part of the vessel still lies where she went ashore, and part of the [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2305).

(Classified as wooden [full-rigged] ship, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 9 January 1866). This vessel was wrecked at Bornish, South Uist.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 18/03/2004