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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 837451
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/837451
HY74SE 8011 c. 77 44
N59 17 W2 24
NLO: Scuthvie Bay [name centred HY 774 444]
Tofts Ness [name centred HY 759 472]
Sanday [name centred HY 67 40].
Possibly on map sheet HY74NE.
24 June 1891. FRÉDÉRIC EUGÈNE. 19 years of France. Wood barque. 546 ton. 14 men. Master C. Lewis. Owner Verdeau & Co., Bordeaux. Hernosand to Brazil. Deals, battens, iron tubes. Wind E2. Toftsness, Sanday, Orkney.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1890-91 (1892 [C.6717] LXXI.495).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1477).
(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of deals, battens and iron tubes: date of loss cited as 24 June 1891). Frederic Eugene: this vessel stranded at Toftsness [Tofts Ness], Sanday. Capt. Louis.
Registration: Bordeaux. Built 1872. 601grt. Length: 45m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N59 18.75 W2 25.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.