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Magnet: Jirry Geo, Fair Isle, North Sea
Dandy (20th Century)
Site Name Magnet: Jirry Geo, Fair Isle, North Sea
Classification Dandy (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Magnet
Canmore ID 242495
Site Number HZ27SW 8040
NGR HZ 222 735
NGR Description HZ c. 222 735
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
HZ27SW 8040 c. 222 735
N59 32.8 W 136.4
NLO: Fair Isle [name centred HZ 21 72].
Magnet: [max. date] 1904
Nothing ever seen of crew: articles washed ashore suggest she was Norwegian.
Archive Ref: WFI p. 14; CE 85/4/11
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated].
MS/3025, no. 886.
(Classified as dandy: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 15 April 1904). Magnet: this vessel was wrecked [presumably stranded] at Jirry Geo, Fair Isle. Registration: Norwegian? 75 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N59 32.0 W1 37.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Jirry Geo is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The location cited is taken from the Shetland Maritime Record.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 May 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 17307
Name : MAGNET
Latitude : 593200
Longitude : 13700
Registration : NORWEGIAN ?
Type : DANDY
Tonnage : 75
Tonnage Code : R
Loss Day : 15
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1904
Comment : Wrecked at Jirry Geo, Fair Isle
