Maritime record 14070 - CELESTE: STORNOWAY HARBOUR, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43SW 8037 c. 425 324
N58 12.3 W6 23

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

25 June 1881, CELESTE, 13 yrs old, of Troon, wooden yawl, 32 tons, 4 crew, Master S. Vint, Owner Capt. D. Boyle, R.N., Shewalton, Co. Ayr, departed Port Patrick [Portpatrick], Wigtonshire, for yachting, in ballast, 4 passengers, wind SW5, stranded, total loss, entrance to Stornoway Harbour.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3123).

(Classified as wooden cutter, in ballast: date of loss cited as 25 June 1881). This vessel stranded at the entrance to Stornoway. Capt. Vint.
I G Whittaker 1998.

No authority is cited for the rig assigned by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 April 2004.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 22/04/2004