Maritime record 13952 - FLYING FISH: BUTT OF LEWIS, ATLANTIC

NB56NW 8008 unlocated

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

4 Mar, 1885, FLYING FISH, not registered, wooden lugger, unknown tonnage say 4, 6 crew, Master and Owner A. Morrison, Stornoway. Departed Ness, Hebrides for fishing, in ballast. Six lives lost. Wind ENE 10. Foundered 1 mile W of the Butt of Lewis, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1828).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as SY 251 and date of loss as 4 March 1885). This vessel foundered 1 mile W of Butt of Lewis.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It may fall on map sheet NB46NE.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.

REPORT DATE: 10/12/2003