Maritime record 14183 - FAIR CAMBRIAN: CHCKEN HEAD, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB52NW 8001 c. 50 29
N58 11 W6 15

Possibly on map sheet NB42NE.

NLO: Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

Stornaway [Stornoway], 30th April. `The FAIR CAMBRIAN of Cardigan, Griffiths, was totally lost on Chicken Head, about seven miles from this harbour 2d instant, and all the crew drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5906, London, Tuesday May 11 1824.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6362).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 2 April 1824). This vessel was wrecked on Chicken Head.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Chicken Head is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. It is possibly to equated with Gob na Creige [name: NB 500 292]. The location of this loss is inferred from that of the church NB52NW 1.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 December 2004.

REPORT DATE: 20/12/2004