Maritime record 14018 - FARMER: PORT STOTH, NORTH MINCH

NB56NW 8009 c. 525 659
N58 30.7 W6 15

NLO: Port Stoth [name: NB 525 659]
Butt of Lewis [name: NB 519 665].

21 May 1898 FARMER, 37 years, of Lerwick, wood dandy, 39 ton, 3 men. Master W. Irvine. Owner J.M. Aitken. Portnaguiran to Port Stoth. Stones, asphalt, hay and bricks. Wind ESE4. Port Stoth, Island of Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 836).

(Classified as wooden dandy, with cargo of stones, asphalt and bricks: date of loss cited as 21 May 1898). This vessel stranded at Port Stoth (or Port Sto), Lewis.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 26/09/2003