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True Blue: Ve Skerries, Atlantic
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name True Blue: Ve Skerries, Atlantic
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Detting; Delting; Vee Skerries; Papa Stour
Canmore ID 282559
Site Number HU16NW 8006
NGR HU 10 65
NGR Description HU c. 10 65
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
HU16NW 8006 c. 10 65
N60 22 W1 49
NLO: Ve Skerries [name centred HU 10 65]
Papa Stour [name centred HU 16 60].
Possibly on map sheet or HU16SW.
True Blue: [max. date] 1850
253/250 tons. Built Nova Scotia, 1840. Cargo of flour etc.? Crew perished.
Archive Ref: JoG 12/4/1850
MS/3025, no. 590.
Lerwick, 26th Mar. Part of stern of a vessel was found in the parish of Detting [Delting], marked 'TRUE BLUE' supposed to be from a vessel lost on the Vee Skerries.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,247, London, Tuesday April 9 1850.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8588).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2006.
