Hms Iolaire: Beasts of Holm, Lewis, North Minch

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Hms Iolaire: Beasts of Holm, Lewis, North Minch as Requisitioned Steam Yacht (20th Century)-(1919), Yacht (20th Century)-(1919). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

HMS *Iolaire* was a British Royal Navy vessel that was wrecked on Beasts of Holm, near Lewis in the North Minch on 1 January 1919, resulting in the deaths of 205 sailors, making it one of the worst maritime disasters in Scottish history. The ship had been requisitioned during World War I and was returning its crew to the Western Isles after the war ended; only 13 men survived.