Maritime record 13950 - COWSLIP: TOLSTA HEAD, NORTH MINCH

NB54NE 8001 unlocated

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

9 Feb 1885, COWSLIP, 24 yrs old, registered S.Shields, wooden barque. 343 tons, 10 crew. Master, H. Weberling. Owner, J. Whitfield, Sunderland. Departed Sunderland for Motril, Spain carrying coal and coke. Wind E, squally. Foundered 3 miles SE of Tolsta Head, Lewis, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1826).

(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of coal and coke: date of loss cited as 9 February 1885). This vessel foundered 3 miles SE of Tolsta Head, Lewis.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.

REPORT DATE: 10/12/2003