Loss

Date 18 January 1926

Event ID 610391

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/610391

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 4

Circumstances of Loss Details

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The vessel ran aground during the night having failed to see the North Carr Light vessel in thick fog.

Surveying Details

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The vessel is ashore and [a] total loss 0.25 miles NE of Fifeness.

Source: Lloyds.

The vessel is stranded some 300 yards offshore.

Source: R N Baird, Register of Scottish Wrecks.

Hydrographic Office 1995.

(Classified as steel steam trawler: registration cited as PD 277, and date of loss as 18 January 1926). Downiehills: this vessel [was] wrecked 0.25 miles NE of Fifeness [Fifeness].

Registration: Peterhead. Built 1916. 227grt. Length: 36m. Beam: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 16.77 W2 34.87).

I G Whittaker 1998.