Archaeology Notes

Event ID 857757

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU42SW 8006 c. 434 237

N59 59.8 W1 13.3

NLO: Sandwick [name: HU 434 237]

Sand Wick [name centred HU 433 236].

See also HU42SW 8005.

Petronella: max date 1759

Totally wrecked along with the Hope (HU42SW 8005). Possibly one of two vessels referred to in the Rev. John Mill's Diary as being stranded in May 1761

Archive Ref: Sheriff Court Records SA 12/3604/4168/4031 ; Mill's Diary

Source: Shetland Archive Service

MS/3025 (no. 317)

(Classified as buss: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 10 May 1759). Petronella: this vessel went ashore at Sandwick. Capr. Blomberg. Registration: Erchuysen.

(Location of loss cited as N59 59.5 W1 13.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Bay of Sandwick or Sandwick Bay is presumably to be equated with the deep indentation of Sand Wick.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 June 2007.