Archaeology Notes

Event ID 842432

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU42SW 8021 c. 416 235

N58 59.7 W1 15.3

NLO: Hos Wick [name centred HU 416 235]

Hoswick [name: HU 415 239].

Formerly classified as 'coal hulk' and barge.

(Classified as wooden coal hulk, in ballast: date of loss cited as 8 June 1913). No Name: this vessel was driven from mooring, and stranded at Broonies Taing, Shetland. Registration: Shetland.

(Location of loss cited as N59 59.0 W1 15.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Bronies [or Broonies] Taing is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 May 2003.