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Note
Date 15 November 2004
Event ID 559017
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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(Formerly entered in error as troopship; reclassified as Requisitioned, Steam Yacht). This wreck is charted (Wk) in 8m depth of water to landward of the Biastan Thuilm or Beasts of Holm. This group of skerries rises from a depth of 18m about 1.7nm SE of the pier area at Stornoway and about 0.6nm ESE of the entrance to the ill-defined area of sheltered water that is noted as Stornoway Harbour on the published chart. No seabed type is noted nearby.
This vessel evidently stranded, rather than foundered as has been stated on occasion. The loss of this vessel is not cited by R and B Larn (1998).
Holm is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but may be equated with Tolm [name: NB 457 314]. As defined by RCAHMS, Stornoway harbour (NB43SW 19.00) is at NB 422 326.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 November 2004.
HO chart no. 2529 (1978, revised 1997).
