Archaeology Notes

Event ID 829182

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU56SW 8005 c. 540 628

N60 20.8 W1 1.3

NLO: Saltness [name: HU 540 628]

Whalsay [name centred HU 56 63].

William and Robert: [max. date] 30 Sep 1748

Fish laden for Hamburg, crew saved.

Archive Ref: D.6/292/1 p.30.

Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated].

MS/3025, no. 3.

(Classified as schooner with cargo of salted fish: date of loss cited as 30 September 1748). William & Robert: this vessel was wrecked in Donald's Geo, Saltness. Capt. Calder.

(Location of loss cited as N60 20.75 W1 1.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assiined to this record is essentially arbitrary. Donald's Geo is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

The classification, cargo and date of loss cited by Whittaker remain unverified, but are accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 April 2003.