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Esk: Muckle Skerry, Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth

Sloop (19th Century)

Site Name Esk: Muckle Skerry, Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth

Classification Sloop (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Great Pentland Skerry; Great Pentland Skerries; North Sea; Esk

Canmore ID 221428

Site Number ND47NE 8011

NGR ND 465 783

NGR Description ND c. 465 783

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Maritime - Orkney
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

ND47NE 8011 c. 465 783

N58 41.4 W2 55.4

NLO: Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]

Pentland Skerries [name centred ND 470 775]

Muckle Skerry [name centred ND 465 783].

Dundee, 8th Aug. 'The ESK, Cassidy, from Brora to Tongue, was driven on shore on the Great Pentland Skerry 26th ult.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6976, London, Tuesday August 12 1834.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6948).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of stones: date of loss cited as 26 July 1834). Esk: this vessel was wrecked at the West end of Great Pentland Skerries. Capt. Cassidy.

Registration: Annan. Built 1829. 54 tons burthern. Length: 15m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 41.25 W2 55.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The inclusion of this wreck by Larn and Larn within their section DC ('North-east Scotland') is anomalous. The Pentland Skerries fall within the administrative area of Orkney, and this wreck is assigned accordingly to the quasi-administrative area of Maritime - Orkney.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 September 2002.

R and B Larn 1998.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 9915

Name : ESK

Latitude : 584115

Longitude : 25500

Date Built : 1829

Registration : ANNAN

Type : SLOOP

Tonnage : 54

Tonnage Code : B

Length : 15

Beam : 5

Loss Day : 26

Loss Month : 7

Loss Year : 1834

Comment : Wrecked at the west end of Great Pentland Skerries. Capt. Cassidy

Cargo : STONES

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