Archaeology Notes

Event ID 855684

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND49SW 8066 unlocated

NLO: South Ronaldsay [name centred ND 44 87]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00]

Nevi Skerry [name: ND 397 957].

Possibly on map sheets ND48NE, ND48SW, ND49NE, or ND49SE.

(Classified as schooner, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 14 March 1847). Magnet: this vessel sank near Soouth Ronaldshay [South Ronaldsay] after hitting Nevi Skerry. Capt. Stowe. Registration: Stromness. 335 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 50.0 W3 0.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location of this loss is unclear, and the map sheet assigned is accordingly essentially arbitrary. It remains uncertain on which side of this large island the vessel stranded.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 April 2007.