Maritime record 14115 - CHRISTINA: BHALTOS, UIG, LEWIS, ATLANTIC

NB03NE 8004 c. 09 37
N58 14 W6 57

NLO: Bhaltos [name: NB 092 370].

17 November 1893, CHRISTINA, age unknown, not reg. wood fishing lugger. 18 ton. 4 men. Owner D. Munro, Achumelvich, Loch Inver [Lochinver], Sutherland. Loch Inver [Lochinver] to Stornoway. Ballast. 4 dead. Wind NNE11. Near Valtos, Island of Skye.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1168).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as WK 158 and date of loss as 17 November 1893). This vessel stranded near Valtos [Bhaltos], Skye, near Staffin.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The route cited for the vessel suggests that this loss probably took place on Lewis, rather than Skye as is noted by Whittaker. Staffin Bay and Staffin Island are at NG 48 69 and NG 49 69 respectively, off Trotternish.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 October 2003.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 22/10/2003