Archaeology Notes

Event ID 862610

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU24SE 8001 c. 28 42

N60 10 W1 29

NLO: Silweick [name centred HU 293 423]

Sil Wick [name centred HU 292 417].

Location formerly cited as HU 2867 4252 [N60 10 W1 29].

Ustenlind: [max. date] 1929

547/305 tons, twin screws. Built Drammen 1922. Crew waded ashore. Cargo of telegraph poles. J.W. Robertson did salvage work with 'Dorjoy', skippered by a Welshman

Archive Ref: "SN 26/12/1929 p. 4 col. 5; Mrs Johnson

Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated]

MS/3025, no. 974.

(Location cited as N60 10 W1 29). This vessel lies near the shore at Sil Wick. It has 'broken up'.

G Ridley 1992.

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The USTETIND was built 1922. She dragged her anchors and went to pieces at Silwick, having lost a propellor and been partially disabled in an earlier storm. The vessel had been en-route to the Tyne.

Source: Shipwrecks of Orkney, Shetland & Pentland Firth.

Surveying Details

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26 March 1931. The wreck is breaking up at 60 10 00N, 001 29 00W.

Source: Board of Trade Notice to Mariner's 38/681.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as wooden steamship, with cargo of telegraph poles: date of loss cited as 25 December 1929). Ustetind: this vessel stranded at Silwick, Walls. Iron Motor Vessel?

Registration: Aalesund. Built 1922. 547grt. Length: 49m. Beam: 9m.

(Location of loss cited as N60 9.67 W1 28.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

USTETIND or USTENLIND, motor vessel of Aalsund, 547/305 tons, twin screws. Built at Drammen in 1922. Cargo of telegraph poles. Stranded at Silwick, Walls on 25 December 1929. Crew waded ashore. J.W. Robertson did salvage work with DORJOY, skippered by a Welshman

Archive Ref: SN 26/12/1929 p. 4 col. 5; Mrs Johnson Chapelside

Source: Shetland Archive Service [1998].

The location formerly cited to this record falls onshore, and is probably only approximate. Sandsting is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name apparently applies to an ill-defined area on the West coast of Shetland, around HU 31 51.

Both Whittaker and Larn and Larn classify the vessel as a steamship, but the latter authors state that this was the 'first motor vessel to be wrecked in the Shetland Islands'. The classification Motor Ship is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 January 2003.

R and B Larn 1998; I G Whittaker 1998.