Maritime record 13926 - DAN GLAISTER: RUBHA THUILM, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43SW 8045 c. 441 305
N58 11.4 W6 21.3

NLO: Rubha Thuilm [name: NB 441 305]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

6 May 1877, DAN GLAISTER, 26 yrs old, of Banff, wooden schooner, 70 tons, 4 crew, Master G. McDonald, Owner J. Wilson Macduff, Banffshire, departed Wick for Stornoway, carrying salt and empty barrels, wind SE9, stranded, rocks at Holm, about 2 miles S.E. of Stornoway, Lewis Island, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).

Stornoway, 7th May, 9.5 a.m., the schooner DAN GLAISTER, of Macduff, Captn. McDonald, from Wick to Holm (with stock), drove ashore yesterday morning, in a gale from the South, and has become a total wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,667, London, Tuesday May 8 1877.

Stornoway, 10th May, the wreck and materials of the DAN GLAISTER (schr.) were disposed of yesterday by public auction, and realised £37.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,673, London, Tuesday May 15 1877.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2775).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of salt and empty barrels: date of loss cited as 6 May 1877). This vessel stranded at Holm, about 2 miles SE of Stornoway. Capt. McDonald.
I G Whittaker 1998.

This vessel is said to have been stranded at 'Rock of Holm'. This name is not noted on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but is probably to be equated with Rubha Thuilm [name: NB 441 305].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.

REPORT DATE: 11/05/2004