Archaeology Notes

Event ID 765207

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NB53NE 8002 c. 565 377

N58 15.6 W6 9.1

NLO: Broad Bay or Loch a Tuath [name centred NB 49 36]

Stornoway [name: NB 425 330]

Tiumpan Head (Rubha an t-Siumpain) [name: NB 573 377]

Port nan Giuran [name: NB 565 377].

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.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.