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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 857756

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/857756

HU16SW 8002 c. 143 613

N60 20.2 W1 44.5

NLO: Lyra Skerry [name: HU 143 613]

Papa Stour [name centred HU 16 60].

Johanna Jakoba: max date 1759

West Indies for Denmark, cargo of sugar drove ashore in fog. Crew saved 'a large and beautiful vessel'

Archive Ref: RSB

Source: Shetland Archive Service

MS/3025 (no. 315)

(Classified as [full-rigged] ship, with cargo of sugar: date of loss cited as 15 July 1759). Johanna Jakoba: this vessel was wrecked at Lyra Skerry Sound, Papa Stour. Capt. Nielson. Registration: Copenhagen.

(Location of loss cited as N60 20.25 W1 44.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Lyra Skerry Sound is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name may indicate the channels on either E or W sides of Lyra Skerry.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 March 2003.

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