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.