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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 831853
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/831853
HY41NE 8021 c. 460 142
N59 0.73 W2 56.33
NLO: Kirkwall [name: HY 449 111]
Wide Firth [name centred HY 42 15]
Bay of Kirkwall [name centred HY 445 135].
Bay of Weyland [name centred HY 452 121]
Thieves' Holm [name: HY 462 148].
Possibly on map sheet HY41SW.
Formerly entered as unlocated.
(Classified as steam trawler of iron and steel construction: registration number cited as A 493 and date of loss as 10 March 1918). Endeavour: this vessel was in collision and sank 'at Kirkwall boom'.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1894. 156grt. Length: 31m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 59 W2 57).
Endeavour (possibly): a wreck is reported 29.5 degrees 2.8 cables from the S point of Thieves Holm, at cited location N59 0.73 W2 56.33.
I G Whittaker 1998.
[No location specified]. Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):
A1120 1 bearing square, 1 brass T-piece: from seabed
A1136 1 kitbag lock: from seabed.
NMRS, MS/829/35.
The location cited is derived from the alternative location cited by Whittaker, but remains unverified.There is apparently no available account of the remains.
The location of the Kirkwall boom is not specified, but a line between Crow Ness [name: HY 444 124} and Craigiefield [name: HY 456 124] may be suggested. Although not noted as requisitioned by Whittaker, this vessel may have been in service as an examination ship.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 September 2003.
I G Whittaker 1998; MS/829/35.
