Maritime record 14175 - MARIA D: GALLONHEAD, LEWIS, ATLANTIC

NB45NW 8002 c. 43 59
N58 27 W6 24

Stornoway, 21st Apl., the French fishing lugger MARIA D, is on shore near Gallonhead, West side of Lewis. She had previously lost boats, bulwarks, and sails off the coast of Iceland, where she had been fishing: crew safe.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,653, London, Monday April 23 1877.

Stornoway, 21st Apl., 3.15 p.m., [Another account], the French lugger MARIE, Benjamin, is ashore at Couslista, 35 miles from here, and is likely to become a total wreck, having been driven off her fishing ground, Iceland, in a gale and carried away mizenmast and nearly all sails, lost boats and compass, and had decks swept: three of her crew were washed overboard, but saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,653, London, Monday April 23 1877.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4631).

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially tentative. Neither Gallonhead nor Couslista can be identified from the available map evidence, but the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map notes Gabhsann bho Dheas and Gabhsann bho Thuath at NB 438 585 and NB 445 589 respectively.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 1998.

REPORT DATE: 22/10/2004

Likely to be Gallan Head, and Crowlista, in Uig. Record therefore moved
MML 16.2.2007