Maritime record 14057 - ARIADNE: WEST LOCH TARBERT, LEWIS, ATLANTIC

NB10SW 8001 c. 12 01
N57 54 W6 52

Formerly also entered as NB35NE 8036.

The ARIADNE, Burrows, from Stockholm to Boston, sailed from Stromness 7th ult., after being repaired and was wrecked 18th on the Lewis's.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5066, London, Tuesday April 16 1816.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5888).

(Classified as [full-rigged] ship: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 18 March 1816). Ariadne: this vessel was wrecked at West Loch Tarbert, Lewis. Capt. Burrows. Later hull for sale.
Registration: American. 400 tons burthen.
(Location of loss cited as N57 55 W6 55).
I G Whittaker 1998.

West Loch Tarbert is not specificially noted on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the inner projection of Loch a' Siar [name centred NB 080 037] leading to Tarbert or Tairbeart [name: NB 154 001].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2002.

REPORT DATE: 18/02/2005