Martha Ann: Busta Voe, Atlantic

HU36NE 8004 c. 35 66

N60 23 W1 22

NLO: Busta Voe [name centred HU 35 66]

Brae [name: HU 369 682].

Possibly on map sheet HU36NW.

Martha Ann: [max. date] 1883

58.64 tons registerd. 67.9x18.95x11.2. Built [received incomplete]. From Faroe with line fish. Parted chains and became total wreck. In ballast.

Archive Ref: HS; CE Register of Shipping 1837-1914; RSB

MS/3025, no. 842.

29 March 1883, MARTHA ANN, 12 yrs old, of Lerwick, wooden dandy, 59 tons, 2 crew only on board, Owner A. Smith, Lerwick, anchored at Brae Voe, S. Delting, Shetlands, preparing for the Faroes fishery, wind SSW10, stranded, total loss, Brae Voe, S. Delting, Shetlands.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).

MARTHA ANN. Lerwick, April 4. The MARTHA ANN dandy, of this port, bound for Faroe fishing, with salt, coals, provisions, and fishing gear, parted from her anchors in Brae Voe during a violent gale, March 29, drove on the rocks, had port side knocked in and broken, her hold filling with water to the extent of six feet: no lives lost: vessel expected to become a total wreck: provisions entirely lost: part of the coal and nearly the whole of the fishing gear may be [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3372).

(Classified as wooden dandy, in ballast: registration number cited as LK 86, and date of loss as 29 March 1883). Martha Ann: this vessel was driven from anchor and stranded at Brae Voe, South Delting. Capt. Johnson.

Registraton: Lerwick. Built 1871. 58grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N60 23.5 W1 21.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Brae Voe is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The village of Brae is situated at the head of Busta Voe, and the name presumably applies to this latter feature.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 March 2003.