Archaeology Notes

Event ID 833109

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU30NE 8015 c. 380 096

N59 52.2 W1 19.3

NLO: Little Holm [name: HU 380 096]

Ladies Holm [name: HU 375 096]

Bay of Quendale [name centred 375 124]

Scat Ness [name: HU 387 093]

Scatness [name: HU 388 099]

West Voe of Sumburgh [name centred HU 395 092]

Sumburgh Head [name: HU 407 078].

Location of loss formerly cited as HU c. 375 096 [N59 52.2 W1 19.8].

T 19: [max. date] 1916

1 gun. Bound for White Sea with stores. Crew, including 8 Japanese seamen, saved. Vessel went to pieces a few days after stranding and some stores salved.

Archive Ref: Local wreck list; RSB

Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated]

MS/3025, no. 943.

(Classified as trawler, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 4 October 1916). (HM Trawler) T 19: this vessel was wrecked on Little Holm, Quendale Bay. Capt. McKenzie. Registration: British.

(Location of loss cited as N59 52.25 W1 20.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 July 2007.