Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675374

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/675374

HU42NW 8007 c. 439 282

N60 2.2 W1 12.7

NLO: Aith Voe [name centred HU 438 284].

Ellida: [max. date] 1864

Lost with all hands. Cargo of coal.

Archive Ref: SM p. 8; RSB

Source: Shetland Archive Service (undated)

MS/3025 (no. 653).

25 November 1864, ELIDA, 11 yrs old, schooner, 59 tons, 5 crew (supposed), departed Drontheim for Christiania [Oslo], in ballast (supposed), stranded, total loss, 5 lives lost, wind SE11, reef at entrance of Aithvoe, parish of Landwick, Shetland.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1864 (1865 [3529] L.439).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2210).

Lerwick, 3rd Dec. The ELLIDA, Holtz, of and for Christiania [Oslo], from Drontheim, drove on shore at Aith Voe, ten miles South of this port, on the 25th Nov., and instantly broke up: crew drowned.

Source: LL, No. 15,806, London, Wednesday, December 7 1864.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10748).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 25 November 1864). Ellida: this vessel was lost at the entrance to Aithvoe [Aith Voe]. Capt. Holst.

Registration: Christiania [Oslo].

(Location of loss cited as N60 2.0 W1 12.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 July 2007.