Unknown: Rousay Sound, Orkney
Lugger (20th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Rousay Sound, Orkney
Classification Lugger (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Point Of Vaddy'; Vady; Egilsay
Canmore ID 269724
Site Number HY42NE 8005
NGR HY 45 28
NGR Description HY c. 45 28
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HY42NE 8005 c. 45 28
N59 8 W2 58
NLO: Vady [name: HY 465 284]
Bay of Vady [name centred HY 464 282]
Egilsay [name centred HY 470 295]
Rousay Sound [name centred HY 455 295].
Possibly on map sheet HY42NW.
(Classified as wooden lugger: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 3 April 1907). No name: this vessel foundered one mile off Point of Vaddy [Vady], Egilshay [Egilsay]. Capt. Flaws.
Not registered. 1 ton [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N59 8.5 W2 56.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location cited for this loss is essentially tentative. It remains uncertain whether and where wreckage was washed ashore.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 January 2005.
