Talk:SV Illeri

Date of grounding, date of sinking

 * I still wonder if you have the date right. The Lettens source says "1909: 05.05 .: Grunnstøtte på Vee Skeries, Shetland, på reise Gjanøre, Færøyane – Leith i ballast." So something significant happened on May 5th. I suspect that "Grunnstøtte" means "grounded", but I can't confirm this (Google trannslate says it means "basic support").

Also I vaguely recall that another of your sources, I think the Shetland Times one, which I can no longer access, had her going aground on 5th and finally sinking on 9th. Maproom (talk) 20:32, 20 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi – The Shetland Times article from Saturday 15 May 1909 states Illeri went aground "shortly after midnight on Sunday morning". The Orkney Herald article from Wednesday 19 May 1909 also talks about it wrecking "early on Sunday morning, the 9th inst.," so as far as I can see that should be the correct. The reason I had the wrong dates written before was because I had lazily used an online calculator to get the days of the week (I had missed the day being mentioned in the Orkney Hearld article) and I think I accidentally typed in 1919 instead of 1909. I'm not sure why the 5th is reported in the Norwegian source – unfortunately I don't speak Norwegian so I'll not try to guess at what might be meant there. As there are two sources here that corroborate the same date from a local, contemporary point of view I think I'd stick to these dates. Thanks for keeping me in check though!—&#8202;🐗 Griceylipper (✉️) 20:49, 20 May 2020 (UTC)