Heroine: Mail, Cunningsburgh, North Sea
Craft (20th Century)
Site Name Heroine: Mail, Cunningsburgh, North Sea
Classification Craft (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Heroine
Canmore ID 239268
Site Number HU42NW 8010
NGR HU 431 279
NGR Description HU c. 431 279
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
HU42NW 8010 c. 431 279
N60 2 W1 13.6
NLO: Mail [name: HU 431 279]
Sands of Mail [name centred HU 430 278]
Cunningsburgh [name centred HU 42 30].
Heroine: [max. date] 1900
Drove ashore along with at least 7 others during great gale of 1900. Crew ashore.
Archive Ref: RSB
MS/3025, no. 852.
(Classified as packet [no rig cited]: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 16 February 1900). Heroine: this vessel was wrecked at Mail. Registration: Lerwick.
(Location of loss cited as N60 2.0 W1 13.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 March 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 9316
Name : HEROINE
Latitude : 600200
Longitude : 11330
Registration : LERWICK
Type : PACKET
Loss Day : 16
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1900
Comment : Wrecked at Mail
