Maritime record 13776 - INVERMARK: STORNOWAY BAY, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43SW 8048 c. 43 31
N58 12 W6 22

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

27 May 1891. INVERMARK. 29 years of Hull. Wood schooner. Issetjord, Denmark to Amble. Ballast, 1 passenger. Wind NE8. Stornoway Bay, Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1890-91 (1892 [C.6717] LXXI.495).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1474).

(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss 27 May 1891). This vessel stranded in Stornoway bay.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Stornoway Bay is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but it may be equated with Cala Steornabhaigh [name centred NB 431 315].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.

REPORT DATE: 19/11/2003