Archaeology Notes

Event ID 857943

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU66SW 8009 c. 604 643

N60 21.5 W0 54.3

NLO: Isbister Holm [name: HU 604 643]

Whalsay [name centred HU 56 63].

Jufron Ingester: [max. date] 1778

260 tons [gross]. Ireland to Copenhagen. Cargo of skins, tallow and coarse hose. Crew saved except one .Cargo lost

Archive Ref: SA D6/292/1 p33; Mills Diary; ST 10/11/1877

MS/3025, no. 699.

(Classified as brig, with cargo of tallow and hides: date of loss cited as 12 November 1778). Jufron Ingester: this vessel was wrecked on Isbister Holm, Whalsey [Whalsay]. Capt. Tummen.

Registration: Copenhagen. 260 tons burthern.

(Location of loss cited as N60 21.5 W0 54.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The Whalsay Skerries are not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the scattered skerries to the E and SE of Whalsay, around East Linga [name: HU 615 623].

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 April 2003.