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Gunhild: Tofts Ness, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea

Barque (19th Century)

Site Name Gunhild: Tofts Ness, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea

Classification Barque (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Bremelche; Sawely; Bay Of Sowerdie; Taafs Ness; North Ronaldsay Firth; Gunhild (Ex. Bremerlehe, Sawely, ...)

Canmore ID 228198

Site Number HY74NE 8005

NGR HY 76 46

NGR Description HY c. 76 46

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Maritime - Orkney
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

HY74NE 8005 c. 76 46

N59 18 W2 25

NLO: Sanday [name centred HY 67 40]

Bay of Sowerdie [name centred HY 765 461]

North Ronaldsay Firth [name centred HY 74 49]

Tofts Ness [name centred HY 760 471].

Formerly entered as HY64SE 8011 (unlocated).

15 April 1888. GUNHILD. 31 years of Norway. Wood barque. 955 ton. 16 crew. Master G. Andersen. Owner A.C. Andersen, Lawvig, Norway. Krageroe to Liverpool. Timber. Wind SE5. Taafs Ness, Sanday, Orkney.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1887-88 (1889 [C.5730] LXIX.597).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1710).

(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of timber: former names cited as Bremerlehe and Sawely, and date of loss as 15 April 1888). Gunhild: this vessel stranded on the S side of Taafs [Tofts] Ness, Sanday. Capt. Anderssen.

Registration: Laurvig. Built 1857. 955nrt. Length: 55m. Beam: 11m.

(Location of loss cited as N59 18.75 W2 25.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Taafs Ness is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but may be equated with Tofts Ness, at the NE corner of the island. A location at HY c. 76 46 [N59 18 W2 25], and within the Bay of Sowerdie, may accordingly be suggested for this loss.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 November 2002 and 9 December 2004.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 3975

Name : GUNHILD (EX. BREMERLEHE, SAWELY, ...)

Latitude : 591845

Longitude : 22500

Date Built : 1857

Registration : LAURVIG

Type : BARQUE (WOOD)

Tonnage : 955

Tonnage Code : N

Length : 55

Beam : 11

Draught : 6m

Loss Day : 15

Loss Month : 4

Loss Year : 1888

Comment : Stranded on the south side of Taafs Ness, Sanday. Capt. Anderssen

Cargo : TIMBER

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