Loss

Date 8 October 1892

Event ID 558259

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

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8 October 1892. RAMBLER. 10 years. Not reg. Wood fishing lugger. 18 ton. None on board. Master and owner D. Macauley, Portnaguiran, Lewis. Anchored at Portnaguiran. Ballast. Wind N8. Portnaguiran, Lewis.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1892-93 (1894 [C.7324] LXXVI.505).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1289).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as SY 81, and date of loss as 8 October 1892). Rambler: this vessel was driven from anchor and stranded at Portnaguiran [Port nan Giuran], Lewis.

Registration: Stornoway. Built 1882. 18 tons register. Length: 13m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 15.50 W6 10.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.