Archaeology Notes

Event ID 851978

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND37NE 8046 c. 35 76

N58 40 W3 7

NLO: Island of Stroma [name: ND 35 77]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheet ND37NW.

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 23 December 1876). Louisa: this vessel stranded on the SE side of Stroma. Capt. Saadman. All gone, but condemned at Kirkwall.

Registration: Barth. Built 1861. 117 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 40.25 W3 6.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 April 2007.