Archaeology Notes

Event ID 827845

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NB53NE 8005 c. 56 37

N58 15 W6 10

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

Port nan Giuran [name centred NB 565 376]

Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

Formerly entered as NB43NE 8006 at cited location NB c. 49 36 [N58 14 W6 17], and also entered in error as NB53NE 8012.

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 23 October 1952). Wyre Law: this vessel stranded on Lewis, near Portnaguran [Port nan Giuran], and was abandoned.

(Location of loss cited as N58 15.27 W6 10.30).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

The name of this vessel suggests that she was a Fleetwood-based deepwater trawler.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 January 2008.