Maritime record 14125 - BOY'S DELIGHT: AIRD THUNGA, LEWIS, NORTH MINCH

NB43NE 8008 unlocated

NLO: Broad Bay or Loch a Tuath [name centred NB 49 36]
Aird Thunga [name: NB 465 365]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

9 March 1898. BOYS DELIGHT, new, not reg., wood lugsail, 3 ton, 6 men. Master D. Finlayson, Owner M. MacFarlane, Stornoway. Air of Tong, Lewis to fishing. Ballast. Capsized. 6 dead. Wind WSW squally. The Minch.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 848).

(Registration number cited as SY 1182 and classified as lugger: date of loss cited as 9 March 1898). This vessel capsized in Broad Bay, and was carried out to sea.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this loss is essentially arbitrary. Air of Tong is presumably to be identified with Aird Thunga, but the fate of the remains of the vessel is not recorded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 September 2003.

REPORT DATE: 08/10/2003