Bettina Dancia: Clett, Stroma, Pentland Firth

ND37NW 8004 3394 7643

N 58 40.26 W 3 8.35

NLO: Island of Stroma [name: ND 35 77]

Mell Head [name: ND 339 761]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Formerly entered as Motor Coaster and Motor Vessel: reclassified as Motor Ship.

(Classified as motor vessel: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 13 February 1993). Bettina Dancia: this vessel stranded on the SW side of Stroma.

Registration: Tisvildeleje [Denmark]. Built 1990. 1354grt. Length: 63m. Beam: 11m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 40.25 W3 8.00.

I G Whittaker 1998.

Air photography (RCAHMSAP 1995) has recorded the wreck of a small coaster on the sandstone flags immediately NW of the small island of Clett. The ship is lying nearly upright with bows to the W, but may have broken her back, and the good state of the paintwork suggests that the wreck occurred relatively recently. The hatch-covers have been removed and the cargo apparently salvaged.

This wreck is probably to be identified as that of the MV Bettina Dancia which is recorded as having been wrecked at this location on 13 February 1993.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 October 1999.

I G Whittaker 1998.

The island of Clett is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 September 2002.