Archaeology Notes

Event ID 817189

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY63NW 8001 c. 610 374

N59 13.3 W2 41

NLO: Braes Wick [name centred HY 610 374]

Braeswick [name: HY 610 371]

Lashy Sound [name centred HY 598 380]

Sanday [name centred HY 67 40]

Kirkwall [name: HY 449 111].

The QUEEN OF NAPLES, Forrist, from Drontheim to Belfast, is stranded on the Island of Sunday [Sanday], near Kirkwall. Cargo will be saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4082, London, Tuesday September 16 1806.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5549).

(Classified as brig, with cargo of wood: date of loss cited as September 1806). Queen of Naples: this vessel was totally wrecked at Braeswick [Braes Wick], Sanday. Capt. Forrest.

(Location of loss cited as N59 13.25 W2 41.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.