Archaeology Notes

Event ID 829074

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU33SE 8001 c. 356 300

N60 3.2 W1 21.6

NLO: Fugla Stack [name: HU 356 299]

West Burra [name centred HU 365 325].

Possibly on map sheet HU32NE.

Castor: [max. date] 1910.

Built 1908. From Geestemunde to the Iceland fishing. Lost with all hands .

Archive Ref: SN 12/3/1910 p. 4 col. 5 & 19/2/1910 p. 4 col. 6; OH 16/3/1910 p. 4 col. 3; RSB

Source: Shetland Archive Service

MS/3025, no. 914.

(Date of loss cited as 17 February 1910, and registration number as PG 142: no location cited). The wreckage of this vessel can be located between two rocks at the N end of Fugla Stack (on the S part of West Burra). The winch, engines, propellor shaft and part of the stern gear remain identifiable on the rocky seabed at depths between 15 and 18m.

This vessel is known locally as the 'Sweetie Wreck' on account of the tins of peppermints that were washed up at the time of loss.

[Shetland Sub-Aqua Club] 1989.

(Classified as steel steamship, in ballast: registration number cited as PG 142, and date of loss as 14 February 1910). Castor: this steel vessel stranded on the N end of Fugla Stack, West Burra. (8/3/1910 on Burra?)

Registration: Geestemunde. Built 1908. 320nrt.

(Locattion of loss cited as N60 3.33 W1 21.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

The date of loss that is cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is preferred.

The classification cited by Larn and Larn remains unverified, but is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 July 2007.

The classification cited by Larn and Larn remains unverified, but is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 July 2007.