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Defender: Muckle Skerry, Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth

Steam Trawler (20th Century)

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

Classification Steam Trawler (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Gy 1279; North Sea; Defender

Canmore ID 222106

Site Number ND47NE 8031

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 8031 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].

See also NL72SE 8002.

(Classified as steamship: date of loss cited as 3 November 1908). Defender: this vessel was lost (?) in the Pentland Firth. 68nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N58 40.0 W3 10.0).

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.

Whittaker apparently equates this record with the wreck of the same name and date (NL72SE 8002) on Mackenzie's Rock, Skerryvore (NL c. 798 226: N56 17.3 W7 06.9).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 October 2002.

R and B Larn 1998; I G Whittaker 1998.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 10933

Name : DEFENDER

Latitude : 584000

Longitude : 31000

Type : SS

Tonnage : 68

Tonnage Code : N

Loss Day : 3

Loss Month : 11

Loss Year : 1908

Comment : Lost (?) in the Pentland Firth

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