Maritime record 14132 - OCEAN PLOUGH: RUBHA THUILM, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43SW 8061 c. 44 30
N58 11 W6 21

NLO: Rubha Thuilm [name: NB 441 305]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

Possibly on map sheet NB42NW.

24 June 1890. OCEAN PLOUGH. 17 years. Not reg. Wood lugger. 18 ton. 7 men. Master and owner A. McLeod, Grimshader, Ross. Stornoway to fishing. Ballast. Collided un-reg fishing lugger STAG of Stornoway. Wind WNW5. Off Holm Point near Stornoway.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1889-90 (1890-91 [C.6468] LXXVI.485).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1563).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: regisration number cited as SY 350 and date of loss as 24 June 1890). This vessel was in collision and sank off Holm Point, near Stornoway.
I G Whittaker 1998.

This vessel is said to have been stranded at Holm Point. This name is not noted on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but is probably to be equated with Rubha Thuilm [name: NB 441 305].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 November 2003.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 24/11/2003