What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Highcliffe: Forewick Holm, Papa Stour, Sound of Papa as Cargo Vessel (20th Century)-(1940), Steamship (20th Century)-(1940). 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.
Highcliffe was a 20th-century steamship lost in 1940 near Forewick Holm, Papa Stour, in the Sound of Papa. The vessel was likely lost during World War II, though details on the cause, lives lost, or cargo remain unclear; its wreck is recorded as a historically significant maritime casualty in Scottish waters.
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Places near here
Forewick HolmBuilding (period Unassigned) · 127 yd
Brei HolmIslet · 1049 yd
Holm of MelbyCairn(s) (period Unassigned), Chambered Cairn (neolithic) · 1084 yd
Papa Stour, Biggings, Kirk and Kirkyard, War MemorialBurial Ground (19th Century), Church (19th Century), War Memorial (20th Century) (1921) · 1365 yd
Norse StofaMuseum · 1454 yd
Ness of Melby, PierPier (period Unassigned) · 1660 yd
Papa StourNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1.1 mi
Hill of MelbyMountain / peak · 2.2 mi
Shendale HillMountain / peak · 2.3 mi
Voe of SnarranessBay · 3.4 mi
Galta StackIslet · 3.8 mi