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Badger: Bow Skerry Rock, Westray, Atlantic
Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Site Name Badger: Bow Skerry Rock, Westray, Atlantic
Classification Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) A 877; Aikerness; Bow Head; Badger (A 877)
Canmore ID 229365
Site Number HY45SE 8007
NGR HY 461 533
NGR Description HY c. 461 533
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HY45SE 8007 c. 461 533
N59 21.8 W2 56.9
NLO: Westray [name centred HY 44 46].
(Classified as steel, steam trawler, in ballast: registration number cited as A 877, and date of loss as 26 May 1906). Badger: this vessel stranded on Bow Skerry Rock, Aikerness, Westray. (Posn. here is Bow Head).
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1903. 200grt. Length: 35m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N59 21.67 W2 57.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Bow Skerry Rock is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map but the name probably applies to the isolated skerry that is depicted about 0.3 km NNE of Bow Head [name: HY 469 529].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 December 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2808
Name : BADGER (A 877)
Latitude : 592140
Longitude : 25700
Date Built : 1903
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : STEAM TRAWLER(STEEL)
Tonnage : 200
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 35
Beam : 6
Draught : 4m
Loss Day : 26
Loss Month : 5
Loss Year : 1906
Comment : Stranded Bow Skerry Rk, Aikerness, Westray. Posn here is Bow Head. Capt. Turner
Cargo : BALLAST
