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Rosebank: Aith Voe, North Sea

Craft (20th Century)

Site Name Rosebank: Aith Voe, North Sea

Classification Craft (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Aiths Voe; Aithvoe; Cunningsburgh; Rosebank

Canmore ID 241246

Site Number HU42NW 8021

NGR HU 438 284

NGR Description HU c. 438 284

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Shetland Islands
  • Parish Maritime - Shetland Islands
  • Former Region Shetland Islands Area
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

HU42NW 8016 c. 438 284

N60 2.3 W1 12.8

NLO: Aith Voe [name centred HU 438 284]

Cunningsburgh [name centred HU 42 30].

Rosebank: [max. date] 1900

43 ft keel. Her side quite smashed in, crew ashore.

Archive Ref: RSB

MS/3025, no. 859.

(Classified as packet: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 16 February 1900). Rosebank: this vessel was wrecked at Aithsvoe, Cunningsburgh.

Registration: Lerwick. Length: 13m.

(Location of loss cited as N60 2.0 W1 12.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 April 2003.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 17251

Name : ROSEBANK

Latitude : 600200

Longitude : 11200

Registration : LERWICK

Type : PACKET

Length : 13

Loss Day : 16

Loss Month : 2

Loss Year : 1900

Comment : Wrecked at Aithsvoe, Cunningsburgh.

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