Maritime record 13956 - STJERNEN: BATTERY POINT, STORNOWAY, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43SW 8049 c. 432 322
N58 12.2 W6 22.3

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

18 March 1892. STJERNEN. 39 years, of Norway. Wood brigantine. 188 ton. 7 men. Master C. Mathisen. Owner H.A. Lohre, Drammen, Norway. Drammen to Belfast. Timber. Wind S6. Battery Point, Stornoway.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1891-92 (1893-94 [C.7069] LXXX.711).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1393).

(Classified as wooden brigantine, with cargo of timber). This vessel stranded at Battery Point, Stornoway.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Battery Point is not noted on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name has evidently been applied to the point at NB 432 322.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.

REPORT DATE: 13/11/2003