Nor: Ura, South Nesting Bay
Barque (20th Century)
Site Name Nor: Ura, South Nesting Bay
Classification Barque (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Urra Baa; Wick Of Fluig; Nesting Bay; North Sea
Canmore ID 242253
Site Number HU55NW 8001
NGR HU 503 578
NGR Description HU c. 503 578
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
HU55NW 8001 c. 503 578
N60 18.1 W1 5.4
NLO: Ura Stack [name: HU 503 578]
South Nesting Bay [name centred HU 490 562].
Not to be confused with HU16NW 8003.
Nor: [max. date] 1900
450 tons registered, built Nantes 1862 of wood. Driven ashore in disabled condition with loss of all hands. Part cargo of coke. Crew of 13.
Archive Ref: OH 28/2/1900 p. 8 col. 4; SN 24/2/1900 p. 4 col. 6 & p. 8 col. 1-6
MS/3025, no. 860.
(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of coke: date of loss cited as 16 February 1900). Nor: this vessel stranded at Urra [Ura], Wick of Fluig, Nesting Bay. Capt. Svensen.
Registration: Kragero. Built 1862. 446grt. Length: 40m. Beam: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N60 18.17 W1 5.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location of loss assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Wick of Fluig is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 September 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3308
Name : NOR
Latitude : 601810
Longitude : 10530
Date Built : 1862
Registration : KRAGERO
Type : BARQUE (WOOD)
Tonnage : 446
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 40
Beam : 9
Draught : 5m
Loss Day : 16
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1900
Comment : Stranded at Urra, Wick of Fluig, Nesting Bay. Capt. Svensen
Cargo : COKE
