Maritime record 14135 - ANN: TOLSTA HEAD, NORTH MINCH

NB54NE 8004 unlocated

NLO: Tolsta Head (Ceann or Rubha Tholastaidh) [name: NB 565 469].

4 June 1874, ANN, 2 yrs old, of Stornoway, lugger, 15 tons, 6 crew, Master A. McLeod, Owner D. McLeod, departed Stornoway, for fishing, in ballast, foundered, total loss, 6 lives lost, wind SW9, off Tolsta Point, Island of Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1873 - 74 (1875 [C.1260] LXX.161).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2458).

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The loss is not noted by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 March 2004.

REPORT DATE: 25/03/2004