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