Maritime record 13685 - NORTHERN CROWN: ARNISH POINT, STORNOWAY, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43SW 8064 c. 434 317
N58 12 W6 22.1

NLO: Stornoway [name: NB 425 330]
Cala Steornabhaigh [name centred NB 431 315]
Eilean na Cobhair [name: NB 426 320]
Rubha Airinis [name: 422 308].

17 December 1879, NORTHERN CROWN, 16 yrs old, of Newport, Mon., Lloyd's A.1, cont., '73, 7 yrs, last survey 2.78, wooden brig, 197 tons, 6 crew, Master J. Caldwell, Owner S. Keith, Belfast, departed Newcastle-on-Tyne for Galway, carrying coal, wind NW1, stranded, total loss, near Arnish Lighthouse, Loch Stornoway, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).

Stornoway, Dec. 18, 10.30 a.m., NORTHERN CROWN brig, of Newport, reported ashore here yesterday, will probably become a total wreck: hull under water: sails and spars still on ship.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,483, London, Friday December 19 1879.

Stornoway, Dec. 18, NORTHERN CROWN, brig, of Newport, Off. No. 47,023, Caldwell, from Newcastle for Galway (coal), drifted on to the rock near the Arnish Lighthouse, yesterday morning when in tow of two smacks, and remains bilged and full of water. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2977).

(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 17 December 1879). This vessel stranded near Arnish Light. Capt. Caldwell.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Arnish Lighthouse' is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The term presumably indicates the beacon that is depicted at NB 434 317.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 May 2004.

REPORT DATE: 18/05/2004