Maritime record 13947 - IVY HOLME: NORTH MINCH

NB84SE 8001 unlocated

NLO: Butt of Lewis [name: NB 519 665].

4 May 1881, IVY HOLME, new, of Maryport, Lloyd's 100 A1., last survey 4.81, iron steamship, 98 tons, 8 crew, Master J. Connell, Owner W. Hine, Maryport, departed Sunderland for Dublin, carrying coal and 2 passengers, wind E9, foundered, total loss, 12 miles S.E. of Butt of Lewis, North Minch.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).

Stornoway, May 5, 3.7 p.m., IVY HOME, screw steamer, of Maryport, Connell, from Sunderland for Dublin (coals), is reported foundered off Butt of Lewis, this morning: crew picked up by a fishing boat and landed here. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3034).

(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 4 May 1881). This vessel foundered 12 miles SE of the Butt of Lewis. Capt. Connell.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Larn and Larn.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.

REPORT DATE: 10/06/2004