Archaeology Notes
Event ID 842587
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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HU24NW 8011 c. 239 480
N60 13 W1 34.1
NLO: Walls [name: HU 241 493]
Linga [name: HU 239 480]
Vaila [name centred HU 230 465]
Vaila Sound [name centred HU 235 475].
Anna: [max. date] 1854.
Christiansand for Macduff, cargo of staves. Missed stays. HS lists it as Tingwall parish - poss. Langa, Scalloway or Heog of Linga. Crew saved.
Archive Ref: Northern Ensign 23/3/1854 p. 3 col. 6; HS; RSB
Source: Shetland Archive Service
MS/3025, no. 608.
3 March 1854, ANNA of Christiansand, Christiansand to Macduff, timber, wind WNW force 3, total wreck. On Isle Linga, Shetland, by missing stays in a very light wind. Crew saved. Lloyds List. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1854 (1854-55 (75) XXXIV.359)
Lerwick, 4th Mar. The ANNA, Foss, of and from Christiansand, with a cargo of timber for Macduff, left Scalloway yesterday, and stood over to the island of Linga, missed stays, went ashore, and has become a total wreck; crew saved, and a portion of the cargo is expected to be saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,468, London, Friday March 10 1854.
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 512).
(Classified as galliot, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 3 March 1854). Anna: this vessel was wrecked at Hogs of Linga, Shetland. Capt. Foss. Registration: Christiansund.
(Location of loss cited as N60 20.5 W0 53.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Hogs of Linga are not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. Vaila Sound separates the island of Vaila (to the S) from the Walls peninsula (to the N). The island of Linga falls within its E end.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 August 2003.