Maritime record 14140 - BONNIE WEE FISHWIFE: NORTH MINCH

NB84SW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Tiumpan Head (Rubha an t-Siumpain) [name: NB 573 377].

8 June 1885, BONNIE FISH WIFE, not registered, wooden lugger, 15 tons, 5 crew, Master J. McMillan, Owner S. Mackenzie, Stornaway. Departed Gress, Lewis, for fishing, in ballast. Wind NE, squally. Foundered 12 miles E of Tiumpan 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. 1835).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: name cited as Bonnie Fish Wife and date of loss as 9 June 1885). This vessel foundered 12 miles E of Tiumpan Head, Lewis.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 December 2003.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 10/12/2003