Archaeology Notes
Event ID 757836
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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ND49NE 8013 4735 9853
N58 52.2833 W2 54.7833
NLO: Weddell Sound [name centred ND 477 988]
Stromness [name: HY 253 090]
Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].
Formerly entered as ND49NE 8902.
For adjacent and successor causeway (Churchill Barrier no. 3), see ND49NE 16.
For other blockships in this group, see ND49NE 8001 and ND49NE 8010 -12.
For plan indicating the relative locations and orientations of blockships in this group, see Macdonald 1990, 125.
Quality of fix = 0020
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Buoyage =
General water depth = 6
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The steel single-screw steamship LAPLAND was built 1980, and sunk as a blockship. E DAUNTLESS, PTARMIGAN. Built at Dundee, registered at Liverpool.
Source: Ferguson 1985; MacDonald 1990
Surveying Details
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9 July 1926. The LAPLAND was scuttled at 58 52 17N, 002 54 47W with the REGINALD and GARTSHORE in East Weddel Sound.
14 March 1972. This wreck is totally collapsed and lies directly beneath the concrete causeway. It is possible that some part of the wreck may in future collapse further thus causing distortion to the road.
Report by Undermarine Operations, 5 March 1972.
28 August 1992. The wreck is totally collapsed under the barrier. Sections can be identified sticking out from beneath the concrete blocks of the barrier on NW side.
Source: MacDonald 1990
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as steel steamship: former names cited as Dauntless and Ptarmigan, and date of loss as 14 September 1914). Lapland: this vessel was scuttled as a blockship: No. 3 barrier [ND49NE 16] was built on top.
Registration: Liverpool. Built 1890. 1234grt. Length: 78m. Beam: 10m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 52.28 W2 54.78).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Length: 240 ft (73.2m): date of sinking 16 September 1914.
'Unballasted. Broken in two forward. Not now likely to move. Still an effective obstruction.' (Report dated 28 June 1915 and accompanying panoramic sketch dated 8 December 1915).
The accompanying panoramic drawing (of East Weddel Sound, looking W from the N point of Burray) depicts only the bow, funnel and a mast (aft of the funnel) of this vessel. The bows are to the NW. The accompanying map depicts this vessel in hatched outline as lying in two portions in the centre of the channel.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 January 2004.
PRO [Kew] ADM116/2073A: dated 17 December 1919.
