Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668643

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND47SE 8006 unlocated

NLO: Ness of Duncansby [name: ND 389 738]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

(Classified as steel steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 18 May 1917). Camberwell: this vessel was noted 6 miles SExE of Dunnet Head. Ashore? Duncansby Head?

Registration: Sunderland. Built 1903. 4078grt. Length: 112m. Beam: 15m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 38.0 W2 55.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. It remains unclear whether the vessel foundered at the cited location, or subsequently stranded elsewhere.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 May 2007.