Archaeology Notes

Event ID 830434

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU16NW 8003 c. 10 65

N60 22 W1 49

NLO: Ve Skerries [name centred HU 10 65]

Papa Stour [name centred HU 16 60].

Possibly on map sheet or HU16SW.

Not to be confused with HU16NW 8011 or HU55NW 8001.

Supposed 3 January 1892. NOR. 41 years, of Norway. Wood barque. 330 ton. 8 men. Owner F.A. Christiansen, Laurvig, Norway. Laurvig to Belfast. Timber. 8 dead. Wind NW10. Vee Skerries, off Papa Stour, Shetland.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1891-92 (1893-94 [C.7069] LXXX.711).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1381).

(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 3 January 1892). Nor: this vessel was stranded on Vee [Ve] Skerries; wreckage was found on Papa Stour.

Registration: Arendal. Built 1851. 330 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N60 22.5 W1 49.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 March 2003.