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Dear Richard,

Although a bit late with 1664 the Dutch VOC vessel Kennemerland that was 
wrecked at Shetland that year is well documented. The night they hit the 
Stoura Stack (Out Skerries) a southern gale was blowing and they were 
uncertain of their position. The night was so dark that, despite four 
men in the mast as lookout, the ship suddenly hit the coast. Only three 
out of about 200 crew survived (they fell ashore when the mast broke off).

There still is a rhyme current in the Out Skerries remembering this event:
"The Carmelan frae Amsterdam
Cam on a Maunmas Day,
On Staura Stack she broke her back,
And in the Voe she ca."
or: "And the Skerry folk got a prey."

The Shetland Museum and Archives in Lerwick has quite some material on 
this wreck and the events around it, among which a report that I used to 
write this mail: Aston University Sub-Aqua Club, /The wreck of the 
'Kennemerland' : exploration and discovery / by the Aston University 
Sub-Aqua Club/, (Birmingham, 1974). They also have a substantial amount 
of artefacts from the wreck, among which a part of a navigational 
instrument I am currently researching; the /hoekboog /(double triangle). 
Also see Price and Muckelroy, /The Kennemerland/, IJNA 6.3, 1974.

Nicol�s


 
Richard Dunn wrote:
> Dear all
>  
> I have recently been contacted by a TV producer working on with a 
> programme (partly) to do with celestial navigation. One of the things 
> they were asking about was any notable shipwrecks from about the 
> period 1550-1650 that were due to navigational 
> problems/errors/uncertainties, or voyages that went astray due to such 
> problems. Off the top of my head, the ones that immediately came to 
> mind were later (Shovell, Anson, etc.).
>  
> Can anyone suggest any good tales for this earlier period? I would 
> welcome any suggestions.
>  
> Richard Dunn
> National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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