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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 878070
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/878070
NO60NW 8007 c. 640 099
N56 16.8 W2 35.0
NLO: Fife Ness (name: NO 638 098).
Formerly entered as NO60NW 8191 at cited location NO 6402 0980 [N56 16.7667 W2 34.8667], and also at cited location NO c. 640 098 [N56 16.8 W2 34.9].
Possibly on map sheet NO61SW.
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.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. This vessel may have stranded within the area of map sheet NO61SW.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 September 2010.
