Maritime record 14068 - OSCAR: STORNOWAY, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43SW 8034 unlocated

See also NB56NW 8003.

NLO: Stornoway [name: NB 425 330]
Cala Steornabhaigh [name centred NB 431 315].

Stornaway [Stornoway], 9th Dec. 'The OSCAR, from Londonderry to London, was stranded in Branahny Bay 6th inst., during a heavy gale from SW. The crew and small part of the cargo and materials saved. The TRAVELLER, Wighten, from Quebec to Dundee, was stranded near the Butt of Lewis, during a severe gale from NW on the 8th inst. Crew saved. The gales of the 6th and 8th inst., have been very severe on this coast.' [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6989).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 6 December 1834). This vessel stranded near Stornoway.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Branahuy Bay cannot be identified from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2002.

REPORT DATE: 07/05/2004