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Express: Hine Greenie, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Express: Hine Greenie, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bay Of Sowerdie; Tofts Ness; North Ronaldsay Firth; Express
Canmore ID 269251
Site Number HY74NE 8006
NGR HY 765 451
NGR Description HY c. 765 451
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/269251
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HY74NE 8006 c. 765 451
N59 17.5 W2 24.8
NLO: Sanday [name centred HY 67 40]
Bay of Sowerdie [name centred HY 765 461]
North Ronaldsay Firth [name centred HY 74 49]
Hine Greenie [name: HY 765 451]
Tofts Ness [name centred HY 760 471].
Possibly on map sheet HY74SE.
Sanday (Orkneys), 27th Feb. 'The EXPRESS, Gunn, from Lerwick to Belfast, was driven on shore near this port 25th instant, water-logged. Crew and part of the materials saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7037, London, Friday March 13 1835.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7070).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 25 February 1835). Express: this vessel stranded at Hine Greenie, Sanday. Capt. Gunn.
(Location of loss cited as N59 17.5 W2 25).
I G Whittaker 1998.
It remains uncertain whether or not this vessel was successfully refloated.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 December 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11054
Name : EXPRESS
Latitude : 591730
Longitude : 22500
Date Built : 1821
Registration : WICK
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 83
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 18
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 25
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1835
Comment : Stranded at Hine Greenie, Sanday. Capt. Gunn
Cargo : HERRING
