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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 830519
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/830519
HU44NE 8002 c. 46 49
N60 13 W1 10
NLO: Hawks Ness [name: HU 462 490]
Dales Voe [name centred HU 452 455].
Possibly on map sheet HU45SE.
Formerly entered under classification Maritime; Unassigned; Craft.
Unicorn: [max. date] 1567
Struck Unicorn Baa while in pursuit of the Earl of Bothwell
Archive Ref: OLM Vol 1 p35
Source: Shetland Archive Service
MS/3025, no. 222.
(Classified as frigate: date of loss cited as 25 August 1567). Unicorn: this vessel stranded on rock now bearing its name, ie. Unicorn Baa. Registration: Dundee.
(Location of loss cited as N60 13.67 W1 8.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Neither Unicorn Shoal nor Unicorn Baa is noted on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 April 2003.
