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Loch Ryan: States, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Loch Ryan: States, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Lerwick'; Atlantic; Bressay Sound; Lerwick Harbour
Canmore ID 270020
Site Number HU44SE 8085
NGR HU
NGR Description Unlocated
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/270020
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Maritime - Shetland Islands
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HU44SE 8085 unlocated
NLO: Lerwick [name: HU 475 415].
Not to be confused with ND16NE 8008.
Kirkwall, Nov. 24, LOCH RYAN has been wrecked at States, near Lerwick. The crew were on board the ST. CLAIR, from Lerwick, which called here today.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,087, London, Monday November 28 1881.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5281).
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The location of States cannot be established from the available map evidence. Lerwick being presumably the place of report, the vessel was probably wrecked on the North Sea coast of the islands, either within Bressay Sound (which essentially forms Lerwick Harbour) or on the North Sea coast, but the possibility of a loss on the Atlantic coast cannot be excluded.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 January 2005.
