Strathavon: Broonies Taing, Hos Wick, North Sea
Smack (20th Century)
Site Name Strathavon: Broonies Taing, Hos Wick, North Sea
Classification Smack (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Hoswick Bay; Bronies Taing; Strathavon
Canmore ID 242904
Site Number HU42SW 8020
NGR HU 416 235
NGR Description HU c. 416 235
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
HU42SW 8020 c. 416 235
N58 59.7 W1 15.3
NLO: Hos Wick [name centred HU 416 235]
Hoswick [name: HU 415 239].
(Classified as wooden smack, in ballast: date of loss cited as 30 October 1911). Strathavon: this vessel stranded at Bronies [or Broonies] Taing, Hoswick.
Registration: Lerwick. Built 1899. 44 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N59 59.75 W1 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Bronies [or Broonies] Taing is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 May 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4599
Name : STRATHAVON
Latitude : 595945
Longitude : 11500
Date Built : 1899
Registration : LERWICK *
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 44
Loss Day : 30
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1911
Comment : Stranded Bronies Taing, Hoswick.
Cargo : BALLAST
