Maritime record 14128 - J A GOOD: NESS BAY, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB56SW 8006 c. 53 63
N58 29 W6 14

NLO: Port Nis [name: NB 540 638].

26 March 1896. J.A. GOOD, 8 years, not reg. wood lugger. 7 ton. 6 men. Master and owner J. McLennan, Fivepenny Ness, Lewis. Ness to fishing. Ballast. Collided un-reg. fishing boat PROSPERITY. Wind WNW9. Ness Bay, island of Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1895-96 (1897 [C.8453] LXXVIII.693).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1018).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 26 March 1896). This vessel was in collision and sank in Ness Bay.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Ness Bay is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name presumably applies to the bay in front of Port Nis.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 October 2003.

REPORT DATE: 13/10/2003