Archaeology Notes

Event ID 652151

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY74NE 8006 c. 765 451

N59 17.5 W2 24.8

NLO: Sanday [name centred HY 67 40]

Bay of Sowerdie [name centred HY 765 461]

North Ronaldsay Firth [name centred HY 74 49]

Hine Greenie [name: HY 765 451]

Tofts Ness [name centred HY 760 471].

Possibly on map sheet HY74SE.

Sanday (Orkneys), 27th Feb. 'The EXPRESS, Gunn, from Lerwick to Belfast, was driven on shore near this port 25th instant, water-logged. Crew and part of the materials saved.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7037, London, Friday March 13 1835.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7070).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 25 February 1835). Express: this vessel stranded at Hine Greenie, Sanday. Capt. Gunn.

(Location of loss cited as N59 17.5 W2 25).

I G Whittaker 1998.

It remains uncertain whether or not this vessel was successfully refloated.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 December 2004.