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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 645961
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/645961
HY62NW 23 6485 2935
N59 8.99 W2 36.87
NLO: Whitehall Village [name: HY 655 285]
Huip Ness [name: HY 644 302]
Papa Sound [name centred HY 658 288]
Stronsay [name centred HY 66 24].
Wreck of a concrete barge used as a coal hulk during the herring fishery (to supply steam drifters). Complete hull survives and is visible at low water. Two derricks which were operated by steam winches. This was one of three coal hulks in Papa Sound; it broke from its mooring in a storm and was driven ashore here.
RCAHMS 1984 (visited by Dr R G Lamb, June 1979).
(Classified as concrete hulk, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 22 February 1936). A C W 11: this vessel stranded at Whitehall harbour after dragging anchors. Built 1918. 378 grt.
(Location of loss cited as N59 5.0 W2 38.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Visible on air photograph OS 69/150/045, flown 1969.
Information from RCAHMS (DRE), 20 May 1999.
The wreck cited by RCAHMS wreck is apparently to be equated with the A C W 11 that is cited by Whittaker. Whitehall harbour is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 October 2002.
RCAHMS 1984; I G Whittaker 1998.
