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John Filds: Fair Isle
Dandy (19th Century)
Site Name John Filds: Fair Isle
Classification Dandy (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Fair Isle'; Atlantic; North Sea
Canmore ID 256266
Site Number HZ27SW 8056
NGR HZ
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Maritime - Shetland Islands
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HZ27SW 8056 unlocated
NLO: Fair Isle [name centred HZ 21 72].
Possibly on map sheets HZ16NE, or HZ26NW.
3 December 1876, JOHN FILDS, 11 yrs old, of Berwick, wooden dandy, 50 tons, 5 crew, Master W. Jamieson, Owner Shetland Fishing Co., Glasgow, departed Scalloway, Mainland, Shetlands, for Aberdeen, in ballasts, decks swept, 1 life lost, partial loss, wind SE11, off Fair Isle, Shetlands.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2800).
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary and it remains unclear whether the vessel was lost in the North Sea or the Atlantic.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), suggesting that she was successfully recovered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 March 2004.
