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Watson: Bay Of Symbister, Whalsay, North Sea

Brig (19th Century)

Site Name Watson: Bay Of Symbister, Whalsay, North Sea

Classification Brig (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Walton; Symbister, Outer Harbour; Symbister Harbour

Canmore ID 242284

Site Number HU56SW 8008

NGR HU 539 626

NGR Description HU c. 539 626

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

Archaeology Notes

HU56SW 8008 c. 539 626

N60 20.7 W1 1.4

NLO: Symbister [name: HU 539 626]

Whalsay [name centred HU 56 63].

Watson: [max. date] 1817

169 tons [gross]. Stranded on voyage from Archangel to Leith with a cargo of tar, hemp, feathers etc. Crew saved with difficulty.

Archive Ref: SC 12/1506; RSB

Source: Shetland Archive Service

MS/3025, no. 447.

(Classified as brig: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 23 November 1817). Watson (Walton?): this vessel stranded at Bay of Symbister, Whalsay. Capt. Litster.

Registration: Leith. 169 tons burthern.

(Location of loss cited as N60 20.67 W1 1.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Bay of Symbister is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name probably applies to the prominent bay (containing the harbour) around which the village of Symbister is disposed.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 April 2003.

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 1817). Watson: this vessel was wrecked in the Outer Harbour. The cargo was salvaged, but there is no record of the disposal of the vessel.

(Information from HM Customs, Lerwick).

NMRS, MS/2334.

Symbister Harbour (HU56SW 18.00) is centred at HU 5383 6240. It is of simple plan, and has no outer harbour as such. The term 'outer harbour' may apply to the prominent bay ('Symbister Voe') within which it is set.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 August 2005.

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