Archaeology Notes

Event ID 759456

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU16NW 8006 c. 10 65

N60 22 W1 49

NLO: Ve Skerries [name centred HU 10 65]

Papa Stour [name centred HU 16 60].

Possibly on map sheet or HU16SW.

True Blue: [max. date] 1850

253/250 tons. Built Nova Scotia, 1840. Cargo of flour etc.? Crew perished.

Archive Ref: JoG 12/4/1850

MS/3025, no. 590.

Lerwick, 26th Mar. Part of stern of a vessel was found in the parish of Detting [Delting], marked 'TRUE BLUE' supposed to be from a vessel lost on the Vee Skerries.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,247, London, Tuesday April 9 1850.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8588).

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2006.