Maritime record 13689 - RAMBLER: ATLANTIC

NB47NE 8001 unlocated

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

9 May 1882, RAMBLER, 2 yrs old, not registered, wooden lug, 18 tons, 5 crew, Master and Owner C. McLeod, Byble, near Stornoway, departed Byble for fishing, in ballast, collided into by unregistered lug PRIMROSE, 2 lives lost, wind SW8, total loss, about 8 miles off the Butt of Lewis, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1881-82 (1883 [C.3487] LXIII.135).

PRIMROSE fishing boat, of Banff, Slater, was in collision on May 9 with the RAMBLER boat, of Stornoway, which sank, two of her crew being drowned. The PRIMROSE lost bowsprit. (Stornoway, May 9). [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3275).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast; registration number and date of loss cited as SY 52 and 9 May 1882 respectively). This vessel was in collision and sank about 8 miles off the Butt of Lewis. Capt. McLeod.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 June 2004.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 29/06/2004