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Loss
Date 11 October 1861
Event ID 568400
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/568400
Kirkwall, 14th Oct. The WILLIAM (schr.), Thompson, of and from Perth, for Wick, with wood, was stranded in Walkmill [Waulkmill] Bay, 11th Oct., during a gale from SSE: she is imbedded 3 feet in sand, and is full of water, but will probably come off with the streams.
Source: LL, No. 14,831, London, Thursday, October 17 1861.
Kirkwall, 6th Nov. The WILLIAM (schr.), Thompson, of and from Perth, for Wick, with wood, which was stranded at Walkmill [Waulkmill] Bay, 11th Oct., has been condemned.
Source: LL, No. 14,851, London, Saturday, November 9 1861.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10135).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of wood and staves: date of loss cited as 11 October 1861). William: this vessel stranded and was condemned at Waukmill [Waulkmill] Bay, Scapa Flow. Capt. Thomson. Registration: Perth.
(Location of loss cited as N58 36.33 W3 4.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
