Maritime record 13953 - ROSE AUGUSTA: LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB52NE 8002 unlocated

8 Feb 1886, ROSE AUGUSTA, new, not registered, wooden lugger, 5 tons, 6 crew, Master J. McLeod, Owner M.McIver, Bayble, near Stornoway. Departed Bayble for fishing in ballast. 6 lives lost. Foundered 4 miles East of the Chicken Rocks, North Minch, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1868).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 8 February 1886). This vessel foundered 4 miles E of Chicken Rocks, North Minch.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Larn and Larn. Chicken Rocks are not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map but may be identified with A' Chreac [name: NB 497 287]..
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.

REPORT DATE: 15/12/2003