Maritime record 13912 - ROBINA: PORT NIS, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB56SW 8009 c. 54 63
N58 29 W6 13

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

Not to be confused with NB56SW 8007.

Stornoway, 27th May [1873], 5.15 p.m., the ROBINA, of Ardrossan, Macdonald, parted her cables, and drove ashore at 2 a.m., today, on rocks, at Port of Ness [Port Nis]: she is likely to become a total wreck: half cargo (salt) lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,440, London, Wednesday May 28 1873.

Stornoway, 31st May, 12.10 p.m., the ROBINA, of Ardrossan, which drove ashore, 27th May, at Port of Ness, has been got off with keel all gone and other serious damage, and is now at the quay there, in an exposed place.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,444, London, Monday June 2 1873.

Stornoway, 13th June, 5.55 p.m., the ROBINA has arrived here: extent of damage cannot be ascertained until the vessel is beached. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3962).

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2004.

REPORT DATE: 29/11/2004