Archaeology Notes
Event ID 766050
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/766050
ND37NW 8001 3490 7914
N58 41.7333 W3 7.4
NLO: Island of Stroma [name: ND 35 77]
Langaton Point [name: ND 349 791]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Formerly entered as ND37NW 8492.
Steamship GERTRUD, 1627 ton, of Helsingfors, master R. Wallen, bound from Manchester to Helsingfors. Lost 1 June 1934, 6.50 (not shown if am or pm). Langaton, 1/4 mile from Stroma Lighthouse. Fog signal sounding from 5.10am. Weather calm, dense fog. Cause of wreck strong tide & dense fog. All 22 persons saved. Cargo ballast. Shortly after the crew had been taken off by one of the local boats the steamer commenced to break up & within 14 hours no trace of her was visible above water.
[Contemporary] source: Hugh H. William Innes, Principal Lighkeeper, Stroma Lighhouse.
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The steamship GERTRUD ran aground.
Surveying Details
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3 June 1934. The vessel went ashore on the north side of Stroma at a position bearing 080 degrees (true) and approximately 8 miles, from Dunnet Head.
Report by Royal Naval Signal Station Dunnet Head, 1 June 1934.
8 June 1934. The vessel is completely broken up and no longer visible.
Report by Royal Naval Signal Station, Dunnet Head, 3 Juen 1934.
21 January 1985. The site was not found nor referred to in the report of survey carried out by BUE Subsea.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as steamship: former name cited as Maud Hartmann, and date of loss as 1 June 1934). Gertrud: this vessel stranded on the W side of Langaton Point, slipped off, and sank in deep water.
Registration: Helsingfors. Built 1881. 1691grt. Length 79m. Beam: 11m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 41.73 W3 7.4).
I G Whittaker 1998.
(Name cited as Langaton Point). This may be the PA wreck noted by Ridley at ND 348 772, a cited location which falls inshore and is inconsistent with the cited location.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 October 2002.
G Ridley 1992.
