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Telegraphen: Start Point, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Telegraphen: Start Point, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Telegraphin; Telegraphen

Canmore ID 269364

Site Number HY74SE 8024

NGR HY 789 435

NGR Description HY c. 789 435

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

HY74SE 8024 c. 789 435

N59 16.7 W2 22.2

NLO: Start Point [name: HY 789 435]

Sanday [name centred HY 67 40].

Kirkwall, 17th Aug. The TELEGRAPHIN (schr.), of Copenhagen, Martinsen, from Danzig to Londonderry, with wheat, went on shore during a heavy fog, on the evening of the 15th Aug., on Start Point, Island of Sanday, vessel full of water, but little of her material or cargo expected to be saved: crew saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,537, London, Thursday August 20 1857.

Kirkwall, 25th Aug. The hull of the TELEGRAPHEN, of Copenhagen, from Danzig to Londonderry, has completely broken up: a great part of the cargo has been saved wet.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,544, London, Friday August 28 1857.

Kirkwall, 1st Sept. About 280 qrs. of wheat were saved from the wreck of the TELEGRAPHEN, from Danzig to Londonderry, which was stranded on the island of Sanday, on the 15th Aug.: the wheat got heated, and was sold on the beach with the wreck.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,549, London, Thursday September 3 1857.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9402).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of wheat: date of loss cited as 15 August 1857). Telegraphen: this vessel stranded at Start Point, Sanday. Capt. Mortinsen. Registration: Copenhagen.

(Location of loss cited as N59 16.5 W2 22.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 12349

Name : TELEGRAPHEN

Latitude : 591630

Longitude : 22230

Registration : COPENHAGEN

Type : SCHOONER

Loss Day : 15

Loss Month : 8

Loss Year : 1857

Comment : Stranded at Start Point, Sanday. Capt. Mortinsen

Cargo : WHEAT

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