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William: Gray's Quay, Stromness Harbour, Scapa Flow, Orkney

Craft (19th Century)

Site Name William: Gray's Quay, Stromness Harbour, Scapa Flow, Orkney

Classification Craft (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Stromness Sound; Atlantic

Canmore ID 247284

Site Number HY20NE 8022

NGR HY 254 089

NGR Description HY c. 254 089

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

HY20NE 8022 c. 256 085

N58 57.5 W3 17.6

NLO: Stromness [name: HY 253 090]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].

Not to be confused with HY20NE 8023.

Damaged, March 30 1850, WILLIAM of Stornoway. Stromness, driven against Gray's Quay. Lloyds List 9 April 1850.

Source: PP British Sessional Papers. Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1850 and 1851 (1852 (XLIX.503)).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 137).

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Gray's Quay is not noted as such on the 1971 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map and the location cited is, accordingly, an estimate. Stromness harbour has few structures and no breakwater or clearly-defined entrance as such. It is formed by a prolonged voe heading northwards from about HY 257 082, and partly protected by the islands of Inner and Outer Holm on the E. The 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map notes Harbour [NAT] around HY 256 085.

This vessel is not noted as a loss by I G Whittaker (1998). She may have been repaired and returned to service.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 July 2003.

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