Kildale: North Sea
Steamship (20th Century)
Site Name Kildale: North Sea
Classification Steamship (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Seven Miles Off Rattray Head'; Kildale
Canmore ID 309752
Site Number NK17SW 8008
NGR NK
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK17SW 8008 unlocated
NLO: Rattray Head [name: NK 110 578].
See also NK16NW 8005, NK17SW 8001 and NK17SW 8002.
(Classified as steel steamship, with cargo of sugar: date of loss cited as 4 November 1940). Kildale: this vessel was bombed by aircraft 7 miles off Rattray Head.
Registration: Whitby. Built 1924. 3877grt. Length: 111m. Beam: 16m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 45.40 W1 45.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 February 2011.
Loss (4 November 1940)
(Classified as steel steamship, with cargo of sugar: date of loss cited as 4 November 1940). Kildale: this vessel was bombed by aircraft 7 miles off Rattray Head.
Registration: Whitby. Built 1924. 3877grt. Length: 111m. Beam: 16m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 45.40 W1 45.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (24 February 2011)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 February 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2293
Name : KILDALE
Latitude : 574524
Longitude : 14500
Date Built : 1924
Registration : WHITBY
Type : SS (STEEL)
Tonnage : 3877
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 111
Beam : 16
Draught : 7m
Position : Position Approximate
Loss Day : 4
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1940
Comment : Bombed by A/C 7 miles off Rattray Head
Cargo : SUGAR
