Archaeology Notes

Event ID 854275

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY41SW 8039 c. 44 11

N58 59 W2 58

NLO: Hatston [name: HY 432 121]

Kirkwall [name: HY 449 111]

Bay of Kirkwall [name centred HY 445 135]

Wide Firth [name centred HY 42 15].

Possibly on map sheet HY41SE.

(Classified as Hawker Sea Hurricane 1b: date of loss as 15 December 1942). Z7089: this aircraft of 885 sqdn [FAA] crashed into the sea off Kirkwall Peerie (Pier?).

Registration: British.

(Location of loss cited as N59 0.0 W2 57.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is tentative. 'Kirkwall Peerie' presumably refers to the Peerie or Peedie Sea [Peedie Sea: HY 4462 11190], to the W of the town and to the S of Bay of Kirkwall.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 December 2006.