Archaeology Notes
Event ID 862978
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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HU42SW 8008 c. 433 236
N59 59.7 W1 13.4
NLO: Sandwick [name: HU 434 237]
Sand Wick [name centred HU 433 236].
Aurora: [max. date] 1835
Came ashore waterlogged from Dublin to Barth in ballast, crew saved
Archive Ref: HS; RSB
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated].
MS/3025, no. 397.
(Classified as brig, in ballast: date of loss cited as September 1835). Aurora: this vessel stranded at Sandwick Bay.
Registration: Barth. 300 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N59 59.5 W1 13.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Sandwick Bay or Bay of Sandwick is presumably to be equated with the deep indentation of Sand Wick.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 June 2007.