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Suundown: Sullom Voe, Atlantic
Drifter (20th Century)
Site Name Suundown: Sullom Voe, Atlantic
Classification Drifter (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Yell Sound; Sundown
Canmore ID 290560
Site Number HU37SE 8003
NGR HU 38 74
NGR Description HU c. 38 74
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
HU37SE 8003 c. 38 74
N60 27 W1 18
NLO: Yell Sound [name centred HU 40 89]
Sullom Voe [name centred HU 37 73].
Possibly on map sheet HU37NE.
(Classified as steel drifter: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 30 August 1939). Sundown: this vessel was lost at Sullom Voe.
Registration: British. 96grt. Length: 26m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N60 27.0 W1 18.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
It remains uncertain whether this vessel stranded or foundered. The former appears the more probable.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 September 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 1112
Name : SUNDOWN
Latitude : 602700
Longitude : 11800
Registration : BRITISH
Type : DRIFTER (STEEL)
Tonnage : 96
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 26
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 30
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1939
Comment : Lost at Sullom Voe.
