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No: 27655 Contributor: Stuart Kemp Year: 1930
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Ship aground sorry no further details
[Date is just a guess - Steven]
View Large VersionPicture added on 06 April 2015 at 23:48
MV TENNESSEE 1940 ?
Anonymous comment added on 09 April 2015
Is that "....ENA" just above the lower end of the lifeboat/gangway, or just a dirty mark ?
[I've created a Large Version for you to peruse Tommy - Steven]
[I've created a Large Version for you to peruse Tommy - Steven]
Added by Tommy G on 10 April 2015
The Tennessee went ashore below the farm of Poole in Deerness in thick fog.She was carrying a mixed cargo including a large quantity of teak wood in the lower hold when she broke up later that year the east side of Deerness was awash with teak planks.I still have several bits of teak salvaged by my father the late Magnus Wylie The farm of Diamonds was fenced almost entirely of teak stabs he also had a threshing mill made of teak which is now in the Fossil Centre Burray.
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Added by Colin B. Wylie on 25 April 2015
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