Maritime record 14160 - MARY AND BETTY: LEWIS

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Parish MARITIME, Western Isles

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NB35NE 8033 unlocated

The MARY & BETTY, Taggart, from Liverpool to Copenhagen, is lost on the Lewis's.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5333, London, Tuesday November 17 1818.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5995).

(Classified as snow: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as October 1818). Mary & Betty: this vessel was lost on Lewis. Capt. Taggart.
Registration: Harrington. Built 1807. 156 tons burthern. Length: 23m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 15 W6 15).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is entirely arbitrary. It is unclear whether this vessel was lost on the W (Atlantic) or E (North Minch) side of the island.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2004.

REPORT DATE: 21/02/2005

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Jul 29 2005 12:00AM

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