Alberta: Otter's Wick, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Alberta: Otter's Wick, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Otterswick Bay; North Ronaldsay Firth; Atlantic
Canmore ID 286751
Site Number HY74SW 8034
NGR HY 70 44
NGR Description HY c. 70 44
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
HY74SW 8034 c. 70 44
N59 17 W2 32
NLO: Otterswick [name: HY 679 414]
Otters Wick [name centred HY 70 44]
Burness [name centred HY 670 466]
Sanday [name centred HY 67 40]
North Ronaldsay [name: HY 75 54]
North Ronaldsay Firth [name centred HY 74 49].
Possibly on map sheet HY64SE.
North Isles (Ork.), 15th Oct [1863]. The ALBERTA (schr.), of Aberystwyth, Jones, from Stettin to Londonderry, with barley, struck on a sunken rock in Otterswick Bay, Sanday, on the morning of the 12th Oct., but was backed off making water, and the anchors let go. Having been boarded by a boat in the forenoon she was run aground in a sandy bight. The cargo is being discharged, but half of it, if not more, will be damaged. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10442).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2007.
Evidence Of Loss (12 October 1863)
North Isles (Ork.), 15th Oct [1863]. The ALBERTA (schr.), of Aberystwyth, Jones, from Stettin to Londonderry, with barley, struck on a sunken rock in Otterswick Bay, Sanday, on the morning of the 12th Oct., but was backed off making water, and the anchors let go. Having been boarded by a boat in the forenoon she was run aground in a sandy bight. The cargo is being discharged, but half of it, if not more, will be damaged. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10442).
Note (27 February 2007)
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2007.
