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Permute: Flaeshans Of Rumble, Whalsay Skerries, North Sea

Brig (19th Century)

Site Name Permute: Flaeshans Of Rumble, Whalsay Skerries, North Sea

Classification Brig (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Whalsay; Whalsey; Flesions Of Rumble; Permute

Canmore ID 242261

Site Number HU66SW 8007

NGR HU 606 612

NGR Description HU c. 606 612

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

HU66SW 8007 c. 606 612

N60 19.9 W0 54.1

NLO: Flaeshans of Rumble [name: HU 606 612]

Whalsay [name centred HU 56 63].

Permute: [max. date] 1845

Wrecked with loss of crew, cargo of wood and tar and mats from Archangel to Southampton Archive Ref: CE 85/1/9 19; RSB; SC 12/6/1845/207

MS/3025, no. 367.

Lerwick, 14th Oct. 'A barque from Archangel, name unknown, is lost with all hands on the Island of Whalsey [Whalsay].'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9860, London, Monday October 20 1845.

Lerwick, 17th Oct. 'The PERMUTE, Dodds, of Sunderland, from Archangel, was lost on Whalsay Island, 8th instant: crew drowned.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9867, London, Tuesday October 28 1845.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7984).

(Classifed as brig with cargo of tar, deals and mats: date of loss cited as 8 October 1845). Permute: this vessel was wrecked on Flesions [Flaeshans] of Rumble, Whalsey [Whalsay]. Capt. Dodds.

Registration: Sunderland. Built 1828. 232 tons BM.

(Location of loss cited as N60 20 W0 54.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The Whalsay Skerries are not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the scattered skerries to the E and SE of Whalsay, around East Linga [name: HU 615 623].

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 April 2003.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 14454

Name : PERMUTE

Latitude : 602000

Longitude : 5430

Date Built : 1828

Registration : SUNDERLAND

Type : BRIG

Tonnage : 232

Tonnage Code : B

Loss Day : 8

Loss Month : 10

Loss Year : 1845

Comment : Wrecked on Flesions of Rumble, Whalsey. Capt. Dodds

Cargo : TAR,DEALS,MATS

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