Maritime record 13842 - THISTLE: BROAD BAY, NORTH MINCH

NB53NE 8008 unlocated

NLO: Port nan Giuran [name: NB 565 377]
Broad Bay or Loch a Tuath [name centred NB 49 36]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

21 December 1874, THISTLE, of Stornoway, lugger, 5 tons, 6 crew, departed Stornoway for fishing, in ballast, foundered, total loss, 6 lives lost, wind ENE5, 3 miles from Portmagunain [Port nan Giuran].
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. 2562).

The map sheet assigned to tis record is essentially arbitrary. 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