Maritime record 14067 - EARL OF FIFE: RAENISH POINT, LEWIS, ATLANTIC

NB03NE 8001 unlocated

NLO: Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

Stornaway [Stornoway], 15th Nov. 'The EARL OF FIFE, Ranald, from Birken Isles to this port, was totally lost on Raenish Point 11th instant. Crew saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7007, London, Friday November 28 1834.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6968).

(Classified as snow: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 11 November 1834). This vessel was lost on Rhenish [Raenish] Point (?Outer Hebrides).
I G Whittaker 1998.

Raenish or Rhenish Point cannot be identified from the available map evidence. The location cited by Larn and Larn places the loss to the E of Gallan Head [name: NB 053 393].
Imnformation from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.

REPORT DATE: 28/04/2004