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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 860710
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/860710
HX21NE 8004 unlocated
NLO: Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly within areas designated as Maritime - Western Isles, Maritime - Orkney or Maritime - Shetland.
(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of herring and wool: date of loss cited as 16 July 1917). Vesta: this vessel was torpedoed off the North coast [of Scotland].
Registration: Copenhagen. Built 1879. 1122 tons [unspecified]. Length: 68m. Beam: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N59 0.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location of loss and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker and adjusted to fall within the permitted range of RCAHMS coordinates.
The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the quasi-administrative areas that are designated as Maritime - Western Isles, Maritime - Orkney or Maritime - Shetland.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 October 2008.
