Unknown: Gossabrough, Yell, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Gossabrough, Yell, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Gossaborough; Burn Of Gossawater; Basta Voe; Sellafirth; Colgrave Sound; Atlantic
Canmore ID 239420
Site Number HU58SW 8001
NGR HU 53 83
NGR Description HU c. 53 83
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Maritime - Shetland Islands
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HU58SW 8001 c. 53 83
N60 32 W1 2
NLO: Gossabrough [name centred HU 527 832].
Formerly entered as HU59NW 8001 (unlocated).
[Tentative equation: record received incomplete].
Wrecked laden with tar
Archive Ref: SM
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated].
MS/3025, no. 352
(Listed among 'Old wrecks of Yell'). In 1847 an unknown vessel was wrecked at Gossaborough.
G Ridley 1992.
(No classification specified: cargo cited as tar, and date of loss as December 1847). Unknown: this vessel was wrecked at Gossabrough.
(Location of loss cited as N60 32.0 W1 1.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location of Gossaborough or Gossabrough cannot be established from rge available map evidence. The Burn of Gossawater [name centred HU 505 999] is only noted inland but enters Basta Voe at its head [HU 511 678] near Sellafirth [name: HU 520 979].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 March 2003.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Per contra the above, Gossabrough [name centred HU 527 832] lies inland, but close to the E shore of Yell.
The vessel presumably stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 September 2007.