Maritime record 13687 - MARGARET: BUTT OF LEWIS, ATLANTIC

NB56NW 8012 unlocated

NLO: Butt of Lewis [name: NB 519 665].

9 May 1882, MARGARET, 9 yrs old, not registered, wooden lugsail, 5 tons, 8 crew, Master and Owner N. Paterson, Brue Barvas [possibly Barabhas: NB 361 499], Lewis, departed Brue Barvas for fishing, in ballast, wind SW9, foundered, total loss, off the Butt of Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3174).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as 5 May 1882 and date of loss as 5 May 1882). This vessel foundered off the Butt of Lewis. Capt. Paterson.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. It is unclear whether the loss occurred in the Atlantic or within the North Minch.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 June 2004.

REPORT DATE: 29/06/2004