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Unknown: Lunning Head, North Sea
Whaler (17th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Unknown: Lunning Head, North Sea
Classification Whaler (17th Century)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Ness Of Lunning; Unknown 1602; Unknown 1670
Canmore ID 290628
Site Number HU56NW 8001
NGR HU 512 673
NGR Description HU c. 512 673
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
HU56NW 8001 c. 512 673
N60 23.2 W1 4.3
NLO: Lunning Head [name: HU 512 673].
[Tentative equation: record received incomplete]: [max. date] 1602
Two barrels of blubber washed ashore
Archive Ref: RSB
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated].
MS/3025, no. 199.
(Classified as possible whaler: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 1602). Unknown: this vessel was lost at Ness of Lunning [Lunning Head]. Registration: Dutch?
(Location of loss cited as N60 23.0 W1 4.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The vessel presumably stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 September 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 17435
Name : UNKNOWN 1602
Latitude : 602300
Longitude : 10430
Registration : DUTCH ?
Type : WHALER ?
Loss Year : 1602
Comment : Lost at Ness of Lunning.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 17465
Name : UNKNOWN 1670
Latitude : 602300
Longitude : 10500
Registration : DUTCH
Loss Year : 1670
Comment : Lost at Lunnasting. Circa-1670
