Haabet: Stenness, Esha Ness, Atlantic

HU27NW 8004 c. 21 77

N60 29 W1 37

NLO: Stenness [name: HU 214 772]

Esha Ness [name centred HU 223 791].

Location formerly cited as HU c. 214 772.

Haabit: [max. date] 1882.

In ballast from Faroe, driven in to a small rocky bay, vessel was still afloat but full of water and not thought worth salvaging. Master and 3 crew saved

Archive Ref: ST 6/5/1882

Source: Shetland Archive Service

MS/3025, no. 847.

HAABET smack, 16 tons, of Mandal, from Thesshaven for Mandal, which was abandoned near Stennis [Stenness] (North Mavine) 29th or 30th ult., has been dismantled and crew sent per QUEEN (s) from Scalloway 3d inst.: master remains. (Lerwick, May 5).

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,226, London, Wednesday May 10 [1882].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5357).

(Classified as sloop, in ballast: date of loss cited as May 1882). Haabit: this vessel stranded near Stenness, Northmaven [Northmavine]. 'Not worth repairing'. Registration: Mendal.

(Location of loss cited as N60 28.5 W1 37).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The classification assigned by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.

'Mendal' may be Mondal, outside Gothenburg, Sweden.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 February 2005.