Maritime record 13915 - PROSPERITY: PORT NIS, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB56SW 8002 c. 54 63
N58 29 W6 13

NLO: Port Nis [name: NB 540 638].

18 October 1896 PROSPERITY, 8 years, not reg., wood fishing lugger. 9 ton. None on board. A. Smith, owner J. Morrison, Lionel, Lewis. Moored at Port Ness, Lewis. Ballast. Wind NE11. Port Ness, Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 866).

(Classified as wooden lugger, no cargo specified: date of loss cited as 18 October 1896). This vessel foundered at moorings at Port Ness, Lewis.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 01/10/2003