Archaeology Notes

Event ID 839520

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU43NE 8019 unlocated

See also HU44NW 8002.

NLO: Bressay [name centred HU 50 40]

Bressay Sound [name centred HU 485 415].

Lerwick, 8th Nov., a nameboard marked "Porsgrund", has been found at Symbister: another marked "HIRAM, of London", and part of the stern of a ship's boat, at Sand of Sound: another with "JOHANNA" cut out in yellow letters, at Culberwick: another with "Christiansand" on it at Noss: and another marked "ALBERT, Abo", at Bressay.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,206, London, Friday November 12 [1875].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4321).

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are arbitrary, being derived from the reported location of discovery of wreckage. Sand or Sands of Sound are not noted on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name is apparently assigned to the area around HU 464 399.

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 August 2004.