Maritime record 13914 - UNKNOWN: PORT NIS, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB56SW 8003 c. 54 63
N58 29 W6 13

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

18 October 1896, no name, 11 years, not reg., wood lugger (trading). 8 ton. None on board. Master D. Petrie. Owner Brand & Co., Glasgow. Moored at Port Ness, Lewis. Ballast. Collided un-reg. trading smack RAMBLER of Stornoway. Wind NE10. 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. 946).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 October 1896). No name: this vessel was run down while moored at Port Ness.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 06/10/2003