New Waters: Balta, Unst, North Sea
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name New Waters: Balta, Unst, North Sea
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Balta Isle; Balta Sound; New Waters
Canmore ID 242677
Site Number HP60NE 8008
NGR HP 66 08
NGR Description HP c. 66 08
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
HP60NE 8008 c. 66 08
N60 45 W0 47
NLO: Balta [name centred HP 660 080]
Baltasound [name: HP 622 088]
Balta Sound [name centred HP 653 083].
31 October 1893, NEW WATERS, age unknown, not reg. Wood trading smack. 18 ton. 3 men. Master N. Thomson. Owner C.J. Caudison, Balta Sound, Shetland. Haroldswick to Balta Sound. Dried fish. Wind SW1. Balta Island, Shetland.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327)
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1163).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of dried fish: date of loss cited as 31 October 1893). New Waters: this vessel strand at Balta Isle. Capt. Thompson.
Not registered. 18 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N60 45.0 W0 47.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 August 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5945
Name : NEW WATERS
Latitude : 604500
Longitude : 4730
Registration : Not Registered
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 18
Loss Day : 31
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1893
Comment : Stranded Balta Isle. Capt. Thompson
Cargo : DRIED FISH
