Unknown: Sanday, Orkney, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Sanday, Orkney, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sandy
Canmore ID 276683
Site Number HY64SE 8050
NGR HY
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HY64SE 8050 unlocated
NLO: Sanday [name centred HY 67 40].
See also ND37NE 8031 and ND47SW 8025.
Possibly on map sheets HY63NW, HY63NE, NH63SW, HU64NW, HY64NE, HY64SW, HY73NW, HY74NW, HY74NE, or HY74SE.
St. Margaret's Hope, 17th Oct. 'A vessel is reported on shore in Sandy [Sanday], and one in Strona [Stroma], and another it is said to have gone down off Duncan's [Duncansby] Head, with all hands.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9870, London, Friday October 31 1845.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8011).
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary; it remains unclear whereabouts on this extensive island the vessel stranded.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 November 2005.
