Archaeology Notes

Event ID 771273

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM15SE 8007 1765 5288

N56 34.9 W6 35.9

NLO: Friesland Bay [name centred NM 184 530]

Gortan Bay [name centred NM 174 529]

Coll [name centred NM 20 57]

Tiree [name centred NM 00 45].

(Classified as steel motor vessel, in ballast: former name cited as Zephyr, and date of loss as 10 April 1953). Angela: this vessel stranded on the NE side of the southern finger of Frisland [Friesland] Head. Capt. Niska.

Registration: Finnish. Built 1948. 211nrt. Length: 51m. Beam: 8m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 34.97 W6 35.93).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record remains unverified, but is accepted. Frisland or Friesland Head is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the headland between Gortan Bay (to the SW) and Friesland Bay (to the SE), on the SE side of Coll.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 February 2004.