Alex Hastings: Holms Of Ire, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea
Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Site Name Alex Hastings: Holms Of Ire, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea
Classification Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Alex Hastie; Landward Geo; Holm Of Ire; North Sound
Canmore ID 3497
Site Number HY64NW 8001
NGR HY 6475 4710
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
HY64NW 8001 6475 4710
N59 18.56 W2 37.15
NLO: Holms of Ire [name centred HY 648 463]
The North Sound [name centred HY 57 45]
Landward Geo [name: HY 649 468]
Sanday [name centred HY 67 40].
Formerly entered as HY64NW 1.
Name cited as Alex Hastie and location of loss as near Landward Geo.
G Ridley 1992.
(Classified as trawler: date of loss cited as 10 December 1940). Alex Hastie: this vessel stranded on Holm [Holms] of Ire, Sanday, Okney.
Registration: North Shields. Built 1914. 206grt. Length: 36m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N59 18.5 W2 37.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Field Visit (June 1979)
Steam Trawler Alex Hastings of Aberdeen wrecked on Holms of Ire 1939 without loss of life. Information Mr Stout, Airon. Remains are scattered over wave-cut platform and are dry at low tide, comprising: Scotch boiler, intact. Triple-expansion engine block, stroke c. 0.8m, cylinders hp 0.4m, ip 0.55m, lp 0.85m diameter, lying with stern tube and broken iron propeller (not in original position related to engine). Engine bed and most of shaft lying in a geo some 20m seaward. Steam winch. Of the hull only a few buckled girders and plates remain.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jun 79.
Note (1980)
s.t. Alex Hastings, Holms of Ire, Sanday HY 6475 4710 HY64NE
On wave-cut platforrm at extremity of Holms of Ire lie the intact Scotch boiler, triple expansion engine, trawl winch and other scattered remains of Aberdeen trawler wrecked 1939.
RCAHMS 1980
(OR 107)
Field Visit (1999)
The remains of the Alex Hastings, an Aberdeen trawler wrecked in 1939, lie off the north end of the Holms of Ire. Ref.: RCAHMS (1980), #220.
Moore & Wilson 1999.
Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, 1999
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3061
Name : ALEX HASTIE
Latitude : 591830
Longitude : 23700
Date Built : 1914
Registration : NORTH SHIELDS
Type : TRAWLER
Tonnage : 206
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 36
Beam : 6
Draught : 4m
Loss Day : 10
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1940
Comment : Stranded on Holm of Ire, Sanday, Orkney
