Maritime record 13946 - JANE BUTCHER: STORNOWAY, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43SE 8002 c. 468 315
N58 12 W6 18.6

NLO: Mealabost [name: NB 467 328]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330]
Cala Steornabhaigh [name centred NB 431 315].

1 December 1880, JANE BUTCHER, 15 yrs old, of Lancaster, Lloyd's A 1., cont.'75, 7 yrs, last survey 9.79, wooden brigantine, 177 tons, 6 crew, Master H. Kelly, Owner S. Keith, Belfast, departed Larne for Middlesbro', carrying old iron rails, wind W. by S. 9, stranded, total loss, 2.5 miles E. of Stornoway.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).

Stornoway, Dec. 1, 12.20 p.m., JANE BUTCHER schooner, Kelly, from Kingstown for Middlesborough (railway iron), struck on a rock and sunk in six fathoms off Holm Island this morning: prospect of saving cargo.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,780, London, Thursday December 2 1880.

Stornoway, Dec. 9, 1.5 p.m., JANE BUTCHER's position unaltered: spars still all standing: if left in this state will very soon show signs of beginning to break up: [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3058).

(Classified as wooden brigantione, with cargo of old iron rails: date of loss cited as 1 December 1880). This vessel stranded 2.5 miles E of Stornoway. Capt. Kelly.
I G Whittaker 1998.

In the absence of a specified place-name, 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: 16/06/2004