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Goodwill Merchant: Burgi Stacks, Atlantic
Motor Ship (20th Century), Motor Vessel (20th Century)
Site Name Goodwill Merchant: Burgi Stacks, Atlantic
Classification Motor Ship (20th Century), Motor Vessel (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sandwick; Fair Isle; Burgi Stack; Ness Of Ireland; St Ninian's Isle; Goodwill Merchant
Canmore ID 239208
Site Number HU32SE 8001
NGR HU 36626 23399
NGR Description HU c. 365 237
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/239208
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Maritime - Shetland Islands
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HU32SE 8001 c. 365 237
N59 59.8 W1 20.7
NLO: Burgi Stacks [name: HU 365 239]
St Ninian's Isle [name centred HU 365 210]
Ness of Ireland [name centred HU 375 230]
Fair Isle [name centred HZ 21 72].
Formerly entered in error as HU32NE 8002.
Goodwill Merchant: [max. date] 1976
196' x 36' 12', 468 [gross] ton. On auto pilot. From Grangemouth for Lerwick with cargo of site plant for Sullom Voe Oil Terminal - cars and machinery. Thought was on Fair Isle. Crew saved.
Archive Ref: ST 23/1/1976 p. 1
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated]
MS/3025, no. 1017.
(No accurate location or date of diver visit cited). The remains of this vessel lie in an area which is exposed to very heavy swell, and are 'completely broken up'. The mast and engine can still be identified in depths of between 15 and 20m.
Items recovered [present location unstated] include the ship's bell and spare propellor.
(Photograph in text).
[Shetland Sub-Aqua Club] 1989.
(Location cited as HU 365 237 and name as MV Goodwill Merchant). The 'well broken' remains of this Dutch coaster lie at a depth of 16m in a gully between the the shore and a skeery at Burgi Stack. The engine is 'quite spectacular'.
G Ridley 1992.
(Classified as motor vessel: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 18 January 1976). Goodwill Merchant: this vessel stranded 2 miles N of St Ninians's Isle, at Ness of Ireland. Capt. Vesstra.
Registration: Dutch. 468grt. Length: 59m. Beam: 10m.
(Location of loss cited as N59 59.5 W1 20.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Whittaker locates the loss 2 miles N of St Ninian's Isle [name centred HU 365 210], which is consistent with the location cited by Ridley. The documentary attribution of this loss to the W side of Fair Isle is erroneous.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 March 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2398
Name : GOODWILL MERCHANT
Latitude : 595930
Longitude : 12000
Registration : DUTCH
Type : MV
Tonnage : 468
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 59
Beam : 10
Draught : 4m
Position : Position Approximate
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1976
Comment : Stranded 2 miles N of St Ninians Isle at Ness of Ireland. Capt. Veestra
Reference (19 April 2012)
UKHO Identifier : 000038
Feature Class : Wreck
State : LIVE
Classification : Unclassified
Position (Lat/long) : 59.99383,-1.34528
Horizontal Datum : ETRS 1989
WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 59.99383,-1.34528
WGS84 Origin : Original
Previous Position : 60.00000,-1.35000
Position Quality : Precisely known
Depth Quality : Depth unknown
Water Depth : 16
Vertical Datum : Mean Low Water Springs
Name : GOODWILL MERCHANT
Type : MV
Flag : DUTCH
Length : 59.7
Beam : 10.4
Draught : 3.7
Tonnage : 468
Tonnage Type : Gross
Cargo : GENERAL, INC. VEHICLES, KIT HOUSES, MACHINERY
Date Sunk : 18/01/1976
Bottom Texture : Rock
Contact Description : Entire wreck
Original Sensor : Reported Sinking
Last Sensor : None reported
Original Detection Year : 1976
Last Detection Year : 2003
Original Source : Other
Last Source : Other
Circumstances of Loss : **BUILT IN 1962 BY E J SMIT & ZN'S SCHEEPS, WESTERBROEK, WITH 8 CYLINDER OIL ENGINE OF 116BHP, SINGLE SHAFT. OWNED AT TIME OF LOSS BY A C HOFF, ROTTERDAM. PASSAGE GRANGEMOUTH FOR LERWICK. RAN AGROUND ON NESS OF IRELAND, 2M N OF ST NINIAN'S ISLE. CREW OF 8 RESCUED. (SIBI).
Surveying Details : **21.1.76 RAN AGROUND 600000N, 012100W [OGB]. VESSEL LATER SANK STERN DOWN, WITH ONLY MAST VISIBLE. (LL, 21.1.76). NCA, POSN FOR FILING ONLY.
POSITIONS BELOW THIS POINT ARE IN DEGREES, MINUTES AND DECIMALS OF A MINUTE
**16.9.10 POSN GIVEN AS 5959.630N, 0120.717W [WGD]. WK IS COMPLETELY SMASHED TO PIECES UNDER CLIFFS, IN GEN DEPTHS 9-27MTRS. PROPELLOR & BELL RECOVERED IN LATE 1980'S. PHOTO OF VESSEL SINKING. (SHIPWRECKS OF THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND, R BAIRD, PUBLISHED 2003) NCA, EXISTING SCALES TOO SMALL.
Charting Comments : EXISTING SCALES TOO SMALL
Date Last Amended : 16/09/2010
Date Position Last Amended : 16/09/2010
