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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 651852

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY74NE 8002 c. 76 47

N59 19 W2 25

NLO: Sanday [name centred HY 67 40]

North Ronaldsay Firth [name centred HY 74 49]

Tofts Ness [name centred HY 760 471].

(Classified as brig, with cargo of flax and logs: date of loss as 19 November 1778). Taindale: this vessel stranded at Toftsness [Tofts Ness], Sanday. Possibly all gone and later loss? Registration: maryport.

(Location of loss cited as N59 18.0 W2 25.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

It remains unclear or not whether this vessel was successfully recovered.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 December 2004.

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