Archaeology Notes

Event ID 852610

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY74SW 8034 c. 70 44

N59 17 W2 32

NLO: Otterswick [name: HY 679 414]

Otters Wick [name centred HY 70 44]

Burness [name centred HY 670 466]

Sanday [name centred HY 67 40]

North Ronaldsay [name: HY 75 54]

North Ronaldsay Firth [name centred HY 74 49].

Possibly on map sheet HY64SE.

North Isles (Ork.), 15th Oct [1863]. The ALBERTA (schr.), of Aberystwyth, Jones, from Stettin to Londonderry, with barley, struck on a sunken rock in Otterswick Bay, Sanday, on the morning of the 12th Oct., but was backed off making water, and the anchors let go. Having been boarded by a boat in the forenoon she was run aground in a sandy bight. The cargo is being discharged, but half of it, if not more, will be damaged. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10442).

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2007.