Unknown: Bressay Sound
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Bressay Sound
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Lerwick Harbour; North Sea
Canmore ID 252221
Site Number HU44SE 8070
NGR HU 48 41
NGR Description HU c. 48 41
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
HU44SE 8070 c. 48 41
N60 9 W1 8
NLO: Bressay [name centred HU 50 40]
Bressay Sound [name centred HU 485 415]
Lerwick [name: HU 475 415].
Possibly on map sheet HU43NE.
21 June 1889. No name. Age unknown. Not reg. Wood lug sail (trading). 3 ton. 1 man. Master and owner J. Leask, Bressay, Shetland. Lerwick to ? Ballast. 1 dead. Calm. Bressay Sound, Shetland.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1580).
(Classified as Wooden Lugsail [lugger], in ballast: date of loss cited as 21 June 1889). No Name: this vessel foundered in Bressay Sound. Capt. Leask.
No registered. 3 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N60 9.0 W1 7.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location that is assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. It falls within the ill-defined area of Lerwick Harbour (HU44SE 32: centred HU 47722 41345). This takes the form of an extensive roadstead which comprises the waters of Bressay Sound between the narrow Northern entrance (around HU 475 445) and the broader Southern entrance (around HU 483 400). The main facilities are to be found around HU 477 414, on the W side of the Sound; recent development extends Northwards from this point.
It remains unclear whether the vessel was wrecked on the East (Bressay) or West (Shetland mainland) side of the sound.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 November 2003.