Maritime record 14000 - REFUGE: SHADE POINT, BROAD BAY, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43NE 8005 c. 49 39
N58 16 W6 17

NLO: Broad Bay or Loch a Tuath [name centred NB 49 36]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

Possibly on map sheet NB44SE.

22 December 1894. REFUGE, 4 years, not reg. wood lugsail. 3 ton. 6 men. Master D. McLeod. Owner D. McIver, Stornoway. Back, Lewis to fishing. 6 dead. Wind NE11. Shade Point, Broad Bay, Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1894-95 (1896 [C.8247] LXXV.489).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1078).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as SY 886 and date of loss as 22 December 1886). This vessel stranded at Shade Point, Broad Bay.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Shade Point is not noted on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The location cited is derived from that cited by Larn and Larn.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.

REPORT DATE: 17/10/2003