May Island: Lamba Ness, Unst, North Sea

HP61NE 8001 c. 676 154

N60 49 W0 45.4

NLO: Lamba Ness [name: HP 676 154].

Location formerly entered as HP 6750 1540 [N60 48.98 W0 45.54].

May Island: [max. date] 1936

75.6 tons [gross]. Built 1911, Aberdeen. Lost with all10 hands, circumstances uncertain

Archive Ref: SM open file p. 6; SN 20/2/1936 p. 1 col. 5; RSB (archives)

Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated]

MS/3025, no. 984.

Trawler MAY ISLAND, of Leith. Bound from unknown port to fishing ground off Flugga. Lost 18 Feb 1936. South side of Lambaness (Lamba Ness), 7 miles from North Unst Lighthouse, Shetland. Wind south, force 7. cause of wreck unknown. All crew lost.

[Contemporary] source: North Unst Lighthouse.

(Name cited as May Isle and location cited as HU 675 153). The dispersed remains of this wreck (comprising essentially the boiler and winches) lie among boulders close to the rocks in the centre of the small bay at Lamba Ness.

G Ridley 1992.

MAY ISLAND, LH194, steam trawler of Leith, James Tarvit, skipper, 75.6 tons. Built in 1911 at Aberdeen. Lost with all 10 hands, at Russa Geo, Lamba Ness, Unst on 9 March 1936 in uncertain circumstances.

Archive Ref: SM open file p. 6; SN 20/2/1936 p. 1 col. 5; Bruce Papers (archives)

Source: Shetland Archive Service [1998].

(Classified as steel, steam trawler: registration number cited as LH 194, former name as A Spence MacDonald, and date of loss as 18 February 1936). May Island: this vessel stranded on the South side of Lamba Ness, near Norwick, Unst. Capt. Carvit.

Registration: Leith. Built 1911. 195 grt. Length: 35m. Beam: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N60 48.83 W0 46.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 August 2007.