Golden Chance: Village Bay, Hirta, St Kilda, Atlantic

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Golden Chance: Village Bay, Hirta, St Kilda, Atlantic as Motor Fishing Vessel (20th Century)-(1981). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

The *Golden Chance* was a motor fishing vessel lost in 1981 off Village Bay, Hirta, in the St Kilda archipelago. While specific details on lives or cargo lost are not widely recorded, its wreck is noted in Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment as a 20th-century maritime casualty, reflecting the risks faced by fishing vessels in remote and storm-prone waters.