Maritime record MHG46448 - Why Not: North Minch

NMRS Report: (18/11/2004)
NB83SW 8003 unlocated

NLO: Point of Stoer [name: NC 022 356].

25 May 1898 WHY NOT, age unknown, not reg., wood lugger, 18 ton, 7 men, master and owner A. McKenzie, Hopman, Invernesshire. Stornoway to fishing. Ballast. Collided with un-reg. fishing lugger CITY OF LONDON of Banff, wind E4. 7 miles W. of Stoer Head [Point of Stoer], Sutherlandshire. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 757).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: fishing registration nimber cited as INS 653 and date of loss as 25 May 1899). This vessel was in collision and sank 7 Miles W of Stoer Point.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 September 2003.