Archaeology Notes

Event ID 832705

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU67SE 8003 c. 687 714

N60 25.3 W0 45.1

NLO: South Mouth [name centred HU 687 715]

Out Skerries [name centred HU 68 71]

Housay [name: HU 680 712]

Whalsay [name centred HU 56 63].

Nordwind: [max. date] 1906

1243 tons registered, built 1890, of steel. Went ashore in SE gale and became unmanageable. From Gotheburg to Melbourne with cargo of dressed wood and cement. 17 crew saved but Capt, carpenter and boy lost.

Archive Ref: D. 6/292/14/ p. 21; SN 22/12/1906 p. 4 col. 4; Kennemerland Report 1974; RSB S

Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated]

MS/3025, no. 901.

(Classified as steel barque, with cargo of timber and cement: date of loss cited as 16 December 1906). Nordwind: this vessel stranded at Housay, 400 yards SW of Ubda. Capt. Gerwohl.

Registration: German. Built 1890. 1242nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N60 25.0 W0 45.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Whalsay Skerries are not noted on the 1973 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map but the stranding probably occurred within the entrance to South Mouth [name centred HU 687 715]. Cherry notes the recovery of artifacts from this wreck and their deposition in Shetland Museum, Lerwick.

Housay (the largest and westernmost island of the Out Skerries group) is noted as such at HU 678 715. Ubda is not noted as such on the 1973 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 January 2003.

J Cherry 1974.