Archaeology Notes

Event ID 828289

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU42NW 8010 c. 431 279

N60 2 W1 13.6

NLO: Mail [name: HU 431 279]

Sands of Mail [name centred HU 430 278]

Cunningsburgh [name centred HU 42 30].

Heroine: [max. date] 1900

Drove ashore along with at least 7 others during great gale of 1900. Crew ashore.

Archive Ref: RSB

MS/3025, no. 852.

(Classified as packet [no rig cited]: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 16 February 1900). Heroine: this vessel was wrecked at Mail. Registration: Lerwick.

(Location of loss cited as N60 2.0 W1 13.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 March 2003.