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Express: Pentland Firth
Steamship (20th Century)
Site Name Express: Pentland Firth
Classification Steamship (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Hebridean; 'off The Pentland Skerries'; North Sea; Express (Ex. Hebridean)
Canmore ID 222150
Site Number ND79SE 8006
NGR ND 79151 92984
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/222150
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND79SE 8006 unlocated
NLO: Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Pentland Skerries [name centred ND 470 775].
Formerly entered at cited location ND c. 47 77 [N58 41 W2 55].
(Classified as iron steamship, with general cargo: former name cited as Hebridean, and date of loss as 9 February 1918). Express: this vessel was in collision and sank off the Pentland Skerrioes (HMS Grenville).
Registration: Kirkwall. Built 1881. 331grt. Length: 42m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.0 W2 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary. The Pentland Skerries fall within the administrative area of Orkney, and this wreck is assigned accordingly to the quasi-administrative area of Maritime - Orkney.
The inclusion of this wreck by Larn and Larn within their section DC ('North-east Scotland') is anomalous. The Pentland Skerries fall within the administrative area of Orkney, and this wreck is assigned accordingly to the quasi-administrative area of Maritime - Orkney.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 October 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2639
Name : EXPRESS (EX. HEBRIDEAN)
Latitude : 584000
Longitude : 25000
Date Built : 1881
Registration : KIRKWALL
Type : SS (IRON)
Tonnage : 331
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 42
Beam : 7
Draught : 4m
Loss Day : 9
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1918
Comment : Collison and sunk off the Pentland Skerries (HMS GRENVILLE)
Cargo : GENERAL
Reference (March 2012)
Sitename : Express: Pentland Firth
Altname : Express (Main Section)
Note : Located at NGR 379151E 992984N.
Kevin Heath (pers. comm) SS Express (UKHO wreck No 69410) id given to UKHO by Kevin Heath, originally thought to have been lost in the Pentland Firth.
Logbook of HMS Grenville ADM 53/17755
Lloyd’s List February 11 1918 column 19.
Lloyd’s List February 19 1918 column 17
Sources :
SeaZone Hydrospatial OSGB36 Wrecks point,SeaZone,2010
Eastern Approaches to Sanday and Stronsay in WGS1984 at 15 metre resolution Bathymetric Id 20077009,UKHO,2010
UKHO wreck report,2012,69410
