Swan: Pool Of Virkie, North Sea
Craft (17th Century)
Site Name Swan: Pool Of Virkie, North Sea
Classification Craft (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Swane; Suan; Exnabo; Exnaboe
Canmore ID 240213
Site Number HU31SE 8003
NGR HU 398 113
NGR Description HU c. 398 113
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
HU31SE 8003 c. 398 113
N59 53.1 W1 17.3
NLO: Pool of Virkie [name centred HU 396 111]
Exnaboe [name: HU 397 117].
Possibly on map sheet HU41SW.
Swan: [max. date] 1665
Wreck sold to Robert Hunter, chamberlain of Shetland, 10/6/1665
Archive Ref: GD 144/100/6
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated].
MS/3025, no. 171.
(Classified as [full-rigged] ship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 13 March 1665). Swane: this vessel stranded below Exnaboe, Pool of Virkie. All gone? Capt. Jacobson. Registration: Schleswig.
(Location of loss cited as N59 53.0 W1 17.33).
I G Whittaker 1998.
(Name cited as Suan). This wreck was situated 'near' the Pool of Virkie. It was sold to Robert Hunts of Lunna.
[No source or authority specified].
MS/2335.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 May 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 17227
Name : SWANE
Latitude : 595300
Longitude : 11720
Registration : SCHLESWIG
Type : SHIP
Loss Day : 13
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1665
Comment : Stranded below Exnaboe, Pool of Virkie. Capt. Jacobson AG?