Crown: Scarva Taing, Deer Sound, Orkney
Craft (17th Century)
Site Name Crown: Scarva Taing, Deer Sound, Orkney
Classification Craft (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) The Crown; Covenanters' Ship; Scarvataing; Mull Head; Deerness; North Sea; Crown (The Crown ?)
Canmore ID 223068
Site Number HY50NE 8002
NGR HY 572 088
NGR Description HY c. 572 088
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
HY50NE 8002 c. 572 088
N58 57.9 W2 44.7
NLO: Scarva Taing [name: HY 572 088]
Mull Head [name: HY 593 097]
Deerness [name centred HY 567 067]
Deer Sound [name centred HY 537 079].
For (presumably associated) covenanters' graves, see HY50NE 1, HY50NE 33 and HY50NE 44.
For associated monument, see also HY50NE48.
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 10 December 1679). Crown (The Crown?): Covenanters ship wrecked at Scarva Taing, near Deerness. Capt. Teddico.
(Location of loss cited as N58 58.0 W2 45.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 October 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6796
Name : CROWN (THE CROWN ?)
Latitude : 585800
Longitude : 24500
Loss Day : 10
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1679
Comment : Covenanters ship wrecked at Scarva Taing, near Deerness. Capt. Teddico
