Maritime record 13930 - J B BROWN: MCIVER ROCK, BROAD BAY, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43NE 8004 c. 496 364
N58 14.7 W6 16.1

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

21 October 1880, J. B. BROWN, 14 yrs old, of USA, wooden brigantine, 393 tons, 10 crew, Master J. Foster, Owner J. Bain, Portland, Me., departed Christiania [Oslo] for Greenock, carrying timber, wind NE7, stranded, total loss, McIver Rock, Broad Bay, Lewis, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).

Stornoway, Dec. 2, J. B. BROWN, of Portland (Me.), Foster, from Christiania [Oslo] for Greenock, which went ashore here and was got off, is to be sold by auction. She is much damaged and strained. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3043).

Stornoway, Oct. 21, 12.39 p.m., J.B.BROWN schooner, of Portland (Maine), Foster, from Christiania [Oslo] for Greenock (spars), went ashore this morning in Broad Bay: dangerous position.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,745, London, Friday October 22 1880.

Stornoway, Oct. 23, J.B.BROWN, of Portland (Maine), which was stranded in Broad Bay, 21st inst., is still on shore. She has been stripped of sails, rigging, and some spars: also stores landed. The cargo is being discharged, in view of getting her off next spring tides. She lays well on sand, and her hull is yet apparently uninjured.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,750, London, Thursday October 28 1880.

Stornoway, Nov. 2, 10.35 a.m., J.B.BROWN sch., advised as stranded in Broad Bay on 21st, has been salved and brought here last night: part cargo [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5009).

(Classified as wooden brigantine, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 21 October 1880). This vessel stranded on McIver Rock, Broad Bay. Capt. Foster.
I G Whittaker 1998.

McIver Rock is not noted on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The location cited is derived from that cited by Larn and Larn.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.

REPORT DATE: 26/08/2004