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Wanja: Whitemill Bay, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea

Steamship (20th Century)-(1939)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Wanja: Whitemill Bay, Sanday, Orkney, North Sea as Steamship (20th Century)-(1939). 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 *Wanja* was a steamship lost in 1939 near Whitemill Bay, Sanday, Orkney, in the North Sea; details of the wreck, including cause of loss, lives lost, or cargo, are not clearly recorded. Its significance lies in its inclusion in Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment as a 20th-century maritime casualty.

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