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The *Cape York* was a steamship lost in 1940, likely near Scottish coastal waters; details of lives or cargo lost are unspecified, but its precise mapping suggests potential significance for maritime history or wartime activity.

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cape York as Steamship (period Unassigned)-(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.

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