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John Bull: Switha, Scapa Flow, Orkney

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name John Bull: Switha, Scapa Flow, Orkney

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Switha Island; Longhope; Sound Of Hoxa; Switha Sound; Cantick Sound; John Bull

Canmore ID 256701

Site Number ND39SE 8022

NGR ND 36 90

NGR Description ND c. 36 90

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

ND39SE 8022 c. 36 90

N58 48 W3 6

NLO: Switha [name: ND 365 907]

Cantick Sound [name centred ND 352 900]

Cantick Head [name: ND 347 897]

Longhope [name: ND 302 909]

Long Hope [name centred ND 316 917]

Scapa Flow [name centred HY 36 00].

18 January 1876, JOHN BULL, 12 yrs old, of St. John's, Newfoundland, wooden schooner, 136 tons, 6 crew, Master and Owner A. Campbell, Glasgow, departed Dublin for Goole carrying salt cake, wind NNW11, stranded Switha Island, Orkney.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1875 - 76 (1876 [C.1632] LXVII.191).

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2607).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of saltcake: date of loss cited as 18 January 1876). John Bull: this vessel was driven from anchor in Cantick Sound and stranded on Switha. Capt. Cam[p]bell.

Registration: St Johns, Nfld. 136 tons register.

(Location of loss cited as N58 47.5 W3 6.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 11009

Name : JOHN BULL

Latitude : 584730

Longitude : 30630

Registration : ST JOHNS, NFLD

Type : SCHOONER

Tonnage : 136

Tonnage Code : R

Loss Day : 18

Loss Month : 1

Loss Year : 1876

Comment : Driven from anchor in Cantick Sound and stranded on Switha. Capt. Cambell

Cargo : SALTCAKE

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