Maritime record 13924 - BULL DOG: GALLAN HEAD, LEWIS, ATLANTIC

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Parish MARITIME, Western Isles

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NB03NE 8002 unlocated

NLO: Gallan Head [name: NB 053 393].

28 May 1877, BULL DOG, 9 yrs old, of Stornoway, wooden lugger, 8 tons, 9 crew, Master A. McIver, Owner K. Smith, Stornoway, departed Vassay Island, Hebrides, for fishing, in ballast, 9 lives lost, wind NW5, foundered, Gallan Head, Island of Lewis, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2674).

(Name cited as Bulldog and classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 28 May 1877). This vessel foundered off Gallan Head, Lewis. Capt. McIver. Built 1868.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2002.

REPORT DATE: 06/05/2004

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Jul 29 2005 12:00AM

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