Archaeology Notes

Event ID 868915

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR70SW 8001 c. 725 037

N55 16.5 W5 34.9

NLO: Sanda Island [name: NR 735 045].

For wreck of associated salvage vessel (MV Wilmere), see NR70SW 8014.

Formerly entered as Site no's 8011, 9150 and 9160 at cited locations NR 7245 0380 [N 55 16.4167 W 5 35.1167] and NR 7240 0360 [N55 16.29 W5 35.26]. Location also formerly entered as NR c. 72 04 [N55 17 W5 35].

Steamship BYRON DARNTON, 7,000 ton gross, of Baltimore, master King. Bound from Copenhagen to Clyde. Lost 16 Mar 1946, 10.45pm. Sanda, 150 yards from Sanda Lighthouse. Light seen & recognised by crew. Weather strong breeze, south east, force 6, haze. Cause of wreck, unknown. Crew 54, all saved. Vessel in ballast.

[Contemporary] source: John Bain, Principal Lightkeeper, Sanda Lighthouse.

(Classified as steel steamship, in ballast: date of loss cited as 16 March 1946). Bryan Darnton: this vessel was wrecked on Sanda [Island] below the lighthouse. Capt. King.

Registration: American. Built 1943. 7176grt. Length: 127m. Built: 17m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 16.42 W5 35.02).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A3260 1 porthole: from seabed.

NMRS, MS/829/35.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Boiler Reef is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but Sanda Lighthouse (NR70SW 4) is at NR 72549 03715.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 June 2002.