Ness Trader: Port Nis, Lewis, North Minch
Ketch (20th Century)
Site Name Ness Trader: Port Nis, Lewis, North Minch
Classification Ketch (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Port Of Ness; Gomwareath; Gomhareath; Ness Trader
Canmore ID 220840
Site Number NB56SW 8004
NGR NB 539 638
NGR Description NB c. 539 638
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Western Isles
- Parish Maritime - Western Isles
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NB56SW 8004 c. 539 638
N58 29.6 W6 13.4
NLO: Port Nis [name: NB 540 638].
(Classified as wooden ketch, in ballast: date of loss cited as 12 April 1910). Ness Trader: this vessel stranded at Gomhareath, Port of Ness [Port Nis].
Registration: Stornoway. 24 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 29.50 W6 13.0).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Gomwareath or Gomhareath is not noted on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 August 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6105
Name : NESS TRADER
Latitude : 582930
Longitude : 61300
Registration : STORNOWAY *
Type : KETCH (WOOD)
Tonnage : 24
Loss Day : 12
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1910
Comment : Stranded Gomhareath, Port of Ness
Cargo : BALLAST