Perseverance: Atlantic
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Perseverance: Atlantic
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Perseverance; Sneuk Head; Hoy; Dunnet Head; Rora Head
Canmore ID 227960
Site Number ND19SW 8001
NGR ND
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND19SW 8001 unlocated
NLO: Sneuk Head [name: ND 209 952]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Dunnet Head [name: ND 203 768]
Rora Head [name: ND 173 992].
3 September 1886. PERSEVERANCE. 18 years of Belfast. Wood schooner. 207 ton. 6 crew. Master R. Edwards. Owner S. Keith, Belfast. S. Shields to Galway. Coal. Wind WNW5. 9 miles N of Dunnet Head, Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1886-87 (1888 [C.5479] XC.735).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1739).
(Classified as brigantine, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 3 September 1886). Perseverence [sic.]: this vessel foundered off Rora Head, Hoy or 9 miles N of Dunnet Head. Capt. Edwards.
Registration: Belfast. Built 1868. 206 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N58 53.0 W3 30.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Larn and Larn.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 November 2002.
