Maritime record 13846 - CELERITY: BROAD BAY, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43NE 8010 unlocated

NLO: Broad Bay or Loch a Tuath [name centred NB 49 36]
Col [name: NB 465 400]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

Possibly on map sheet NB43SE, NB44SE or NB53NW.

Stornoway, 6th Sept. The CELERITY, Williams, from Newcastle to Drogheda, with coals, was driven on shore yesterday in Broad Bay, and has become a wreck: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,732, London, Monday, September 12 1864.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10641).

(No classification specified: cargo and date of loss cited as coal and 5 September 1864). This vessel was wrecked in Broad Bay, Stornoway. Capt. Williams.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 19/05/2004