Unknown: Little Roe, Sullom Voe, Yell Sound
Craft (Period Unknown)
Site Name Unknown: Little Roe, Sullom Voe, Yell Sound
Classification Craft (Period Unknown)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Little Roe Light'
Canmore ID 290518
Site Number HU37NE 8002
NGR HU 398 797
NGR Description HU c. 398 797
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/290518
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Maritime - Shetland Islands
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HU37NE 8002 c. 398 797
N60 30 W1 16.5
NLO: Little Roe [name: HU 404 795]
Yell Sound [name centred HU 40 89]
Sullom Voe [name centred HU 37 73].
See also HU37NE 8001.
Unknown: old wreck near Little Roe Light[house]. [No source or further details cited].
(Location of loss cited as N60 30.0 W1 16.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
This wreck is presumably to be equated with that entered as HU37NE 8001.
The location of Little Roe light remains unclear. The island of Little Roe is centred at HU 403 797: no lighthouse or beacon is noted on the current edition of the OS (GIS) AIB.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 September 2007.
Little Roe lighthouse (HU37NE 37) is at HU c. 3984 7972.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 June 2009.
