Maritime record 14168 - KENSINGTON: MILTON, SOUTH UIST, ATLANTIC

NF72NW 8001 c. 72 26
N57 12 W7 26

Possibly on map sheet NF72SW.

Greenock, 28th Mar., the KENSINGTON (barque), of Yarmouth, N. S., Sproul, form Shields to Philadelphia, with railway iron, encountered a severe gale from NW, 18th Mar., in which she had 'tween deck beams broken, several sails split, and became leaky: on the 19th she bore up, and next day, being in a sinking state, was run on the beach at Milton, on the West side of Uist: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,080, London, Monday April 1 1872.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3786).

(Classified as barque, with cargo of railway iron: date of loss cited as 19 March 1872). This vessel stranded at Milton, on the West side of Uist. Capt. Sproul.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location of this stranding cannot be definitely ascertained from the available map evidence. The 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map notes no place-names in 'Milton' but the NMRS database cites several such locations around NF 72 26. The coast hereabouts comprises extensive sands.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2004.

REPORT DATE: 30/06/2004