Archaeology Notes
Event ID 771726
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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HU16NW 8001 102 655
N60 22.4 W1 48.9
NLO: Helligoblo [name: HU 102 655]
Ve Skerries [name centred HU 10 65]
Papa Stour [name centred HU 16 60].
Location formerly cited as HU 1050 6550 [N60 22.434 W1 48.5748].
Ben Doran: [max. date] 1930
Presumed to have gone aground in poor visibility. Total loss due to severe weather
Archive Ref: Orcadian 29/5/1930 p. 7 col. 4 & 3/4/1930 p. 5 col. 7-8; Sn 3/4/1930 p. 5 col. 5 & 10/5/1930 p. 4 col. 4
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated]
MS/3025, no. 978.
Steamship BENDORAN, trawler A178, 155 ton, of Aberdeen, Master, James Caie. Bound from Faroe to Aberdeen 'usual call at Scalloway every trip south to telegraph'. Lost Saturday 29 Mar 1930. 'First noticed between 1pm and 2pm by SS BRACONBUSH A770'. Ve Skerries, 10 miles from Eshaness Lighthouse. Wind south west, snow showers. 9 dead. Cargo fish. 'Was observed from lighthouse on Sunday from 9.30am to 4pm. Only the mast with part of the crew lashed to the rigging. The weather being too hazy on Saturday to see the Ve Skerries.'
[Contemporary] source: Lightkeeper, Eshaness Lighthouse.
Location cited as HU 102 655 [N60 22.4 W1 48.9]. This wreck is situated [possibly on the surface] 'at the North end of Helligoblo'.
G Ridley 1992.
BEN DORAN or BENDORAN, A178, steam trawler, of Aberdeen. Presumed to have gone aground in poor visibilty on Ve Skerries on 20 March 1930. Total loss due to severe weather
Archive Ref: Orcadian 29/5/1930 p. 7 col. 4 & 3/4/1930 p. 5 col. 7-8; Sn 3/4/1930 p. 5 col. 5 & 10/5/1930 p. 4 col. 4
Source: Shetland Archive Service [1998].
(Classified as steel, steam trawler: registration number cited as A 178, and date of loss as 29 March 1930). Ben Doran: this vessel was wrecked on Vee [Ve] Skerries, Papa Stour.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1900. 155grt. Length: 31m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N60 22.5 W1 49.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location and map sheet assigned to this record remain unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14August 2007.
