Clifton Hall: Hoy Sound, Orkney

HY20NE 8074 c. 25 08

N58 57 W3 18

NLO: Hoy Sound [name centred HY 236 072]

Hoy Head [name: ND 203 768]

Old Man of Hoy [name: HY 175 008]

Stromness [name: HY 253 090]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].

Possibly on map sheet HY20NW.

Formerly entered as HX91NW 8001 and HY20NW 8049 [both unlocated].

25 February 1869, CLIFTON HALL, 15 years, barque, 354 ton, 12 men, from Liverpool, to Shields, salt, 1 passenger, foundered, total loss, 1 dead, wind WNW force 9, about 16 miles WNW of Hoy Head, Orkney.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1869 (1870 [C.216] LX.657)

Wick, 27th Feb. The CLIFTON HALL, of Sunderland, foundered off Hoy head, in Orkney one man lost.

Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 17,122, London, Monday, March 1 1869

Stromness, 27th Feb. The CLIFTON HALL, of Sunderland, reported by the master, who landed at Longhope, with his crew, this morning, as having [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 634).

(Classified as barque, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 25 February 1869). Clifton Hall: this vessel was abandoned off the Old Man of Hoy, and drifted ashore at Black Crag, on the N side of Hoy Sound.

Registration: Sunderland. Built 1854. 354nrt. Length: 36m. Beam: 8m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 57.5 W3 17.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from that cited by Whittaker. Black Crag is noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the Old Man of Hoy is at HY 177 009.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 March 2007.