Alternative Names 'Below The Beacon'; Kitchener Memorial
Site type CRAFT (19TH CENTURY)
Canmore ID 269798
Site Number HY22NW 8016
NGR HY 226 251
Latitude N 59 6.4
Longitude W 3 21.1
Council ORKNEY ISLANDS
Parish MARITIME - ORKNEY
Former Region ORKNEY ISLANDS AREA
Former District MARITIME
Former County MARITIME

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Archaeological Notes

HY22NW 8016 c. 226 251
N59 6.4 W3 21.1

NLO: Marwick Head [name: HY 227 256].

Possibly on map sheet HY22SW.

Kirkwall, 24th Oct. `A vessel with a cargo of Baltic logs, was totally wrecked on the night of the 22nd inst., near Marwick Head: a name-board has been seen in one of the narrow creeks, marked `---ANE BERTHA, Memel¿: cargo washing on shore: about 800 or 900 logs likely to be saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9870, London, Friday October 31 1845.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7998).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as logs, and date of loss as 22 October 1845). Marianne Bertha: this vessel was wrecked on Marwick Head, 'below the beacon'. Capt. Pieper. Registration: Memel.
(Location of loss cited as N59 6.5 W3 21.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The 'beacon' noted is presumably the Kitchener Memorial (HY22NW 66), which is situated at HY 2265 2517.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 January 2005.

Whittaker, I G (1998) Off Scotland: a comprehensive record of maritime and aviation losses in Scottish waters, Edinburgh
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