Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760008

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY62NE 8001 c. 672 293

N59 9 W2 34.4

NLO: The Roan [name: HY 672 293]

Sanday Sound [name centred HY 67 34]

Papa Stronsay [name centred HY 665 295].

Location formerly cited as HY 6758 2868 [N59 8.4 W2 34].

Well looted by the islanders; odds and ends such as deck planking and china still come ashore.

G Ridley 1992.

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The 3 masted schooner, EDENMORE, struck rocks to the E of Papa Stronsay and sank.

Surveying Details

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7 August 1986. Nothing was found during a general search of the area.

Report by B Winfield, 26 July 1986.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as steel [full-rigged] ship, with general cargo: former name cited as Edenballymore, and date of loss as 7 October 1909). Edenmore: this vessel stranded at the SE corner of Papa Stronsay, at the Rhone [The Roan].

Registration: Greenock. Built 1890. 1726grt. Length: 79m. Beam: 12m.

(Location of loss cited as N59 4.5 W2 32.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.