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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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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

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.

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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?

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