Maritime record 13688 - STANDARD: SIABOST, LEWIS, ATLANTIC

NB24NE 8004 unlocated

Possibly on map sheet NB24NW.

NLO: Siabost [name: NB 260 469]
Loch Shiaboist [name centred NB 255 482].

9 May 1882, STANDARD, 7 yrs old, not registered, wooden lugsail, 5 tons, 7 crew, Master D. Morrison, Owner K. Smith, Stornoway, departed Brue Barvas [possibly Barabhas: NB 361 499] for fishing, in ballast, wind SW9, foundered, total loss, off Shawbost, Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1881-82 (1883 [C.3487] LXIII.135).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3175).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast; registration number and date of loss cited as SY 1688 and 9 May 1882 respectively). This vessel foundered off Shawbost, Lewis. Capt. Morrison.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The district of Siabost (Shawbost) covers a considerable area on the exposed NW (Atlantic) coast of Lewis.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 June 2004.

REPORT DATE: 29/06/2004