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Golden Fleece: Head Of Tind, Fair Isle, Atlantic
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Golden Fleece: Head Of Tind, Fair Isle, Atlantic
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Uran; The Burrian; Fair Isle, South Harbour; North Sea; Golden Fleece
Canmore ID 242428
Site Number HZ16NW 8001
NGR HZ 196 696
NGR Description HZ c. 196 696
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
HZ16NW 8001 c. 196 696
N59 30.7 W1 39.2
NLO: Head of Tind [name: HZ 196 696]
South Harbour [name centred HZ 203 695]
The Burrian [name: HZ 209 697]
Fair Isle [name centred HZ 21 72].
Possibly on map sheet HZ16NE.
Golden Fleece: [max. date] 1877
Struck 'Clumpin' carried by tide and struck Head of Tind and eventually went down off Uran. Crew saved
Archive Ref: WFI; ST 12/1/1878; RSB
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated].
MS/3025, no. 729.
27 December 1877, GOLDEN FLEECE, of Lerwick, wooden smack, 14 tons, 3 crew, Master J. Ridland, Owner J. Bance, jun., Sumburgh, Shetlands, departed Grutness, Shetlands, for Fair Isle, Shetlands, carrying general cargo and one passenger, wind N1, stranded, South Harbour, Fair Isle, Shetlands.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2849).
(Classified as wooden smack, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 27 December 1877). Golden Fleece: this vessel stranded at the South harbour, drifted off and sank off Uran. Capt. Ridland.
Registration: lerwick. 14 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N59 30.78 W1 39.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location cited for this loss is taken from the Shetland Maritime Record.
Uran may be equated with The Burrian [name: HZ 209 697].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 May 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 403
Name : GOLDEN FLEECE
Latitude : 593047
Longitude : 13930
Registration : LERWICK
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 14
Position : Position Approximate
Loss Day : 27
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1877
Comment : Stranded at the South Harbor, drifted off and sank off Uran. Capt. Ridland
Cargo : GENERAL
