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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 831397
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/831397
HY22SW 8001 c. 224 242
N59 5.9 W3 21.3
NLO: Mar Wick [name: HY 224 242].
6 January 1896, MONOMOY, 4 year, of Bristol. Lloyds +100A1 spar deck. Survey 1/95. Steel steamship 1793 ton. 28 men. Master F.J. Duck. Owner Manhaset SS Co. Ltd., Bristol. New York to Leith. General and wheat. Wind SE2. Marwick Bay, Pomona, Orkney.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1895-96 (1897 [C.8453] LXXVIII.693).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 995).
(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of general [goods] and wheat: date of loss cited as 6 January 1896). Monomy: this vessel stranded 500 yards S of Marwick Bay [Mar Wick]. The boiler was washed ashore in March 1985. Capt. Duck.
Registration: Bristol. Built 1892. 2783 grt. Length: 93m. Beam: 12m.
(Location of loss cited as N59 6.0 W3 22.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
