Maritime record 13957 - RAMBLER: PORT NAN GIURAN, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB53NE 8002 c. 565 377
N58 15.6 W6 9.1

NLO: Broad Bay or Loch a Tuath [name centred NB 49 36]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330]
Tiumpan Head (Rubha an t-Siumpain) [name: NB 573 377]
Port nan Giuran [name: NB 565 377].

8 October 1892. RAMBLER. 10 years. Not reg. Wood fishing lugger. 18 ton. None on board. Master and owner D. Macauley, Portnaguiran, Lewis. Anchored at Portnaguiran. Ballast. Wind N8. Portnaguiran, Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1892-93 (1894 [C.7324] LXXVI.505).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1289).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as SY 81 and date of loss as 8 October 1892). This vessel was driven from anchor and stranded at Portnaguiran, Lewis.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 13/05/2004