Maritime record 14049 - MEDEA: LEWIS

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Grid reference NB 3 5 (point)
Map sheet NB35SW
Parish MARITIME, Western Isles

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NB35NE 8016 unlocated

The MEDEA, Murray, of Aberdeen, from Quebec, is lost on the Lewis's [Lewis].
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4626, London, Tuesday December 24 1811.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5734).

(Classified as brigantine: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 22 November 1811). Medea: this vessel was lost on the Lewis's [Lewis]. Capt. Murray.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1794. 163 tons burthen.
(Location of loss cited as N58 15 W6 15).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is entirely arbitrary. It is unclear whether this vessel was lost on the W (Atlantic) or E (North Minch) side of the island of Lewis.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 June 2002.

REPORT DATE: 15/02/2005

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Jul 29 2005 12:00AM

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