Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760704

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC04NE 8001 unlocated

NLO: Handa Island [name centred NC 135 481]

Creag a' Mhail [name: NC 143 458].

Formerly entered as NC04NE 8457 at cited location NC 0505 4681 [N58 22 W5 20].

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The W A MASSEY sank after an explosion which shook the ship.

Report by crew of the drifter ROSE.

Surveying Details

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17 March 1918. The drifter ROSE, which was fishing next to the W A MASSEY reported the position to be 58 22 00N, 005 20 00W.

2 April 1918. The wreck's position is reported as the same as above or 4 minutes west by north from Handa Island in the Minch

13 March 1984. The site was not found during a category A sonar search.

Report by Land & Marine.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as sailing vessel: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 11 March 1918). W A Massey: this vessel was mined 4 miles WxN of Handa Island. (1895 146grt SS(I) 108x21x10 Hull?).

Registration: British.

(Location of loss cited as N58 22.0 W5 20.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

This may be the charted wreck that is noted by Ridley in deep water 5 miles W of Creag a' Mhail and W of Handa [Island].

[No accurate location cited].

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM). 7 October 2002.

G Ridley 1990.