Archaeology Notes

Event ID 831945

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU16NW 8002 c. 100 652

N60 22.3 W1 49.1

NLO: Reaverack [name: HU 100 652]

Papa Stour [name centred HU 16 60]

Ve Skerries [name centred HU 10 65].

Possibly on map sheet HU06NE.

Elinor Viking: [max. date] 1977

Archive Ref: ST 16/12/1977 p. 1 col. 1-6

Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated]

MS/3025, no. 1019.

(Location cited as HU 102 652 and also as N60 22.5 W1 48.5]. This British trawler was lost in 1977 when she ran aground 'at the East side of Reaerach'. Much wreckage (including a large brass propellor) survives at depths aound 15m.

G Ridley 1992.

(Classified as motor trawler: registration numbrer cited as A 278, and date of loss as 9 December 1977). Elinor Viking; this vessel stranded on Vee Skerries, slipped off, and sank.

Registration: Aberdeen. 122grt.

(Location of loss cited as N60 22.5 W1 48.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially tentative. The location cited by Ridley remains unverified.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 February 2003.