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Highcliffe: Forewick Holm, Papa Stour, Sound of Papa

Cargo Vessel (20th Century)-(1940), Steamship (20th Century)-(1940)

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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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