Maritime record 14122 - FEAR NOT: GARRABOST, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB53SW 8002 c. 50 33
N58 13 W6 15

Possibly on map sheet NB43SE.

NLO: Garrabost [name: NB 506 335]
Broad Bay or Loch a Tuath [name centred NB 49 36].

22 December 1894, FEAR NOT, 6 years, not reg. Wood lug sail. 2 ton. 8 men. Master K. McLennan. Owner D. McIver, Stornoway. Back, Lewis to fishing. Ballast. 8 dead. Wind NE11. Garrabost, Broad Bay, Island of Lewis, Ross-shire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1894-95 (1896 [C.8247] LXXV.489).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1065).

(Registration number cited as SY 1063 and classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 December 1894). This vessel stranded at Garrabost, Broad Bay.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 16/10/2003