Maritime record 13841 - CYGNET: BORVE, BARVAS, ATLANTIC

NB35SW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Barabhas [name: NB 361 499].

20 or 21 April 1875, CYGNET, 8 yrs old, of Stornoway, wooden lugger, 7 crew, Master M. MacDonald, Owner H. McLachlan, departed Borve Barvas, Lewis, for fishing, in ballast, 7 lives lost, missing off Island of Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1874 - 75 (1875 [C.1341] LXX.501).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2559).

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Borve is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, and the ill-defined area of Barvas (Barabhas) extends for a considerable distance along the W (Atlantic) coast of Lewis.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 April 2004.

REPORT DATE: 06/04/2004