Young Tobias: Isle Of Noss, North Sea
Dutch East Indiaman (17th Century)
Site Name Young Tobias: Isle Of Noss, North Sea
Classification Dutch East Indiaman (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Noss; Young Tobias
Canmore ID 240168
Site Number HU54SW 8039
NGR HU 54 40
NGR Description HU c. 54 40
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
HU54SW 8038 c. 54 40
N60 8 W1 2
NLO: Isle of Noss [name: HU 545 405].
Possibly on map sheets or HU54SE.
Formerly entered as HU31NE 8001 at cited location HU c. 35 16 [N59 56 W1 22].
Young Tobias: [max. date] 1688
Wrecked, Texel for India general cargo plundered
Archive Ref: GH 5/147 and 119
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated].
MS/3025, no. 142.
(Classified as Dutch East Indiaman, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 29 November 1688). Young Tobias: this vessel was wrecked on Noss Capt. Degild. Registration: Dutch.
(Location of loss cited as N60 8.5 W1 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker. The possibility that the loss occurred at Noss [name: HU 355 166] on the Atlantic coast of the South Mainland cannot be excluded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 October 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 8170
Name : YOUNG TOBIAS
Latitude : 600830
Longitude : 10000
Registration : DUTCH
Type : EAST-INDIAMAN
Loss Day : 29
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1688
Comment : Wrecked on Noss. Capt. Degild
Cargo : GENERAL
