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Unknown: Pentland Firth

Craft

Site Name Unknown: Pentland Firth

Classification Craft

Alternative Name(s) Wind Wick; Orkney; Unknown

Canmore ID 102214

Site Number ND48NE 8003

NGR ND 45782 86935

Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long

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  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Maritime - Orkney
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

ND48NE 8003 4578 8703

N58 46.02 W2 56.25

NLO: Wind Wick [name centred ND 462 870]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Quality of fix = PHOT

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Surveying Details

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31 March 1980. A stranded wreck is shown at 58 46 01.2N, 002 56 15W on aerial photographs taken in 1974.

21 January 1985. The wreck was not referred to in report of a survey of the area.

Report by BUE Subsea.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

Activities

Desk Based Assessment (August 1997)

An unassigned craft lies off the coast of Windwick.

Moore and Wilson, 1997

Coastal Zone Assessment Survey

Reference (19 April 2012)

UKHO Identifier : 001300

Feature Class : Wreck

Wreck Category : Wreck showing any portion of hull or superstructure

State : LIVE

Classification : Unclassified

Position (Lat/long) : 58.76700,-2.93750

Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)

WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 58.76660,-2.93909

WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)

Previous Position : 58.76667,-2.93750

Position Method : Air photography

Position Quality : Precisely known

Depth Quality : Depth unknown

Water Depth : 0

Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide

Name : UNKNOWN

Contact Description : Entire wreck

Original Sensor : Video Sensor

Original Detection Year : 1980

Original Source : Other

Surveying Details : **31.3.80 ST SHOWN IN 584601.2N, 025615W ON AERIAL PHOT 05.74.067 [1974]. NC 2162.

**H2925/83 21.1.85 NOT REFERRED TO IN REPORT OF SURVEY. (BUE SUBSEA, HI 204). NCA.

Chart Symbol : ST

Date Last Amended : 29/07/1985

Date Position Last Amended : 29/07/1985

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