Archaeology Notes

Event ID 831947

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU16SW 8001 c. 143 613

N60 20.2 W1 44.5

NLO: Lyra Skerry [name: HU 143 613]

Fogla Skerry [name: HU 140 612]

Papa Stour [name centred HU 16 60].

Juniper: [max. date] 1967

Went ashore with defective navigational aids in SE gale. Crew of 12 rescued by Aith lifeboat for which rescue cox was awarded RNLI silver medal.

Archive Ref: Press and Journal 13/10/1967; 24/2/1967 p. 4 col. 5-6

Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated]

MS/3025, no. 1010.

(Location cited as HU c. 142 613]. This fishing vessel was wrecked in the 1970's to the E of Lyra Skerry; the remains are 'well smashed'.

G Ridley 1992.

(Classified as M[otor] F[ishing] V[essel]: date of loss cited as 19 February 1967). Juniper: this vessel was wrecked at the foot of a 200ft cliff in Lyra Sound, on the W side of Pap Stour.

Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1961. 234grt.

(location of loss cited as N60 20.25 W1 44.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Lyra Sound is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The NGR cited by Ridley for this loss is at variance with the textual description. Larn and Larn place the wreck at the base of cliffs on the W side of the stack.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 February 2003.