Archaeology Notes

Event ID 759685

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NLO: Inganess Bay [name centred HY 487 102]

Shapinsay [name centred HY 52 19]

Shapinsay Sound [name centred HY 517 133]

Point of Grimsetter [name: HY 481 089].

Formerly entered as Site no. 8921.

See also ND49NE 8048.

Quality of fix = E

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 2

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The tanker NANA was sunk as blockship at 58 50 29N, 002 53 59W approximately on 2 March 1939. The bow was refloated and towed to its present position by Metal Industries.

Surveying Details

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29 September 1977. The wreck is shown on aerial photography flown 21 June 1975. The site is described as the forward section of a tanker, some 61 metres long. The vessel was sunk early in World War II at 58 50 30N, 002 54 00W. It was refloated and towed to its present position at 58 57 51.2N, 002 54 40.5W. The stern section is missing. The structure is badly corroded, and there are no plans to salvage.

Report by Orkney Islands Council, 6 September 1977.

Note by wrecks officer: this is most probably part of the NANA. See the wreck at 58 50 29.1N, 002 53 59.4W.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.