Vandervelde: Hoy, White Ness, Atlantic
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Vandervelde: Hoy, White Ness, Atlantic
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Vandervolock; Van Der Velde; Whiteness Hoy; Orkney; Reawick; Raewick; Rae Wick; Vandervelde
Canmore ID 240413
Site Number HU34SE 8002
NGR HU 373 447
NGR Description HU c. 373 447
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
HU34SE 8002 c. 373 447
N60 11.1 W1 19.6
NLO: Hoy [name: HU 373 447]
White Ness [name centred HU 384 440]
Whiteness Voe [name centred HU 390 435]
Reawick [name: HU 331 441]
Rea Wick [name centred HU 331 447].
Possibly on map sheet HU34NE.
See also HU34SW 8011.
Vandervolock (Van de Velde?): [max. date] 1884.
Drove ashore in westerly gale, general cargo, crew ashore.
Archive Ref: HS; RSB
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated]
MS/3025, no. 837.
20 January 1884, VANDERVELDE, age unknown, not registered, wooden smack, 15 tons, 3 crew, Master G. Henderson, Owner Garriock and Co., Reawick [Raewick], Shetland Isles, in ballast, wind W. by N.10, stranded, total loss, Whiteness Hoy, Shetland [Orkney] Isles.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3456).
(Classified as wooden smack, in ballast: date of loss cited as 20 January 1884). Vandervelde: this vessel stranded at Whiteness Hoy, Shetland. Capt. Henderson.
Registration: Lerwick. 15 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N60 9.5 W1 19.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The attribution of this loss to the Shetlands is incorrect. Hoy is in Orkney.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 April 2004.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Per contra the above, the placing of this loss within Shetland is accepted. White Ness is is an elongated promontory on the W side of Shetland, while Whiteness Voe is the stretch of sheltered water to its E.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 August 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3415
Name : VANDERVELDE
Latitude : 600930
Longitude : 11900
Registration : LERWICK
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 15
Loss Day : 20
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1884
Comment : Stranded Whiteness Hoy, Shetland. Capt. Henderson
Cargo : BALLAST