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