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Victory: North Sea
Drifter (20th Century)
Site Name Victory: North Sea
Classification Drifter (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bf 669; 'off Rattray Head'; Victory (Bf 669)
Canmore ID 101734
Site Number NK15NW 8001
NGR NK 1294 5820
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK15NW 8001 1294 5820
N57 36.8333 W1 47
NLO: Rattray Head [name: NK 110 578].
Formerly entered as NK15NW 8240.
See also NK15NW 8002 and NK15NE 8004.
Quality of fix = PD
Horizontal Datum = UND
Buoyage =
Surveying Details
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3 September 1923. The vessel's position is given as 57 36 50N, 001 47 00W, 1 mile east of Rattray Head.
Telephone report by Coastguard Station, Rattray Head.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as wooden, steam drifter: registration number cited as BF 669, and date of loss as 2 September 1923). Victory: this vessel struck an object 3 miles off Rattray Head, and foundered 1 mile [to the] E. Capt. Coull.
Registration: Portgordon. Built 1907. 81grt. Length: 26m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 36.83 W1 47.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The equation of this wreck with the reported loss of the Victory remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 December 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2277
Name : VICTORY (BF 669)
Latitude : 573650
Longitude : 14700
Date Built : 1907
Registration : PORTGORDON
Type : STEAM DRIFTER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 81
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 26
Beam : 5
Position : Position Doubtful
Loss Day : 2
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1923
Comment : Struck object 3 miles off Rattray Head and foundered 1 mile E. Capt. Coull
