Finlande: Peterhead Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Motor Ship (20th Century)
Site Name Finlande: Peterhead Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Motor Ship (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) North Head, Peterhead; Buchan Ness; Finlande
Canmore ID 115526
Site Number NK14NW 8001
NGR NK 136 462
NGR Description NK c. 136 452
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK14NW 8001 c. 136 452
N57 29.8 W1 46.4
NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465]
Peterhead Bay [name centred NJ 131 454]
Buchan Ness [name: NK 137 422].
Classification formerly entered as Fish Carrier.
Location formerly entered as NK 1420 4320 (N57 28.7436 W1 45.8904).
Possibly on map sheet NK14SW.
Motor Vessel FINLANDE, fish carrier, 750 ton, of Port Talbot, master not known. Bound from Iceland to Hull. Lost 18 Dec 1944, 7.20pm. On point, north entrance to Peterhead Harbour, 4 miles from Buchan Ness Lighthouse. Wind south west moderate, cloudy. Swell moderating after gale of previous day. Cause not ascertained. 36 persons saved. Cargo fish.
[Contemporary] source: Buchan Ness Lighthouse.
(Classified as motor vessel, with cargo of fish: date of loss cited as 18 December 1944). Finlande: this vessel stranded on North Head, at the entrance to Peterhead harbour.
Registration: French. 1343grt. Length 71m. Beam: 12m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 30.50 W1 46.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The location of North Head cannot be established from the available map evidence, but the name presumably applies to one of the headlands around NK 13 46.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 January 2002.
Loss (18 December 1944)
Motor Vessel FINLANDE, fish carrier, 750 ton, of Port Talbot, master not known. Bound from Iceland to Hull. Lost 18 Dec 1944, 7.20pm. On point, north entrance to Peterhead Harbour, 4 miles from Buchan Ness Lighthouse. Wind south west moderate, cloudy. Swell moderating after gale of previous day. Cause not ascertained. 36 persons saved. Cargo fish.
[Contemporary] source: Buchan Ness Lighthouse.
(Classified as motor vessel, with cargo of fish: date of loss cited as 18 December 1944). Finlande: this vessel stranded on North Head, at the entrance to Peterhead harbour.
Registration: French. 1343grt. Length 71m. Beam: 12m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 30.50 W1 46.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (20 March 1997)
NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465]
Peterhead Bay [name centred NJ 131 454]
Buchan Ness [name: NK 137 422].
Classification formerly entered as Fish Carrier.
Location formerly entered as NK 1420 4320 (N57 28.7436 W1 45.8904).
Possibly on map sheet NK14SW.
Note (23 January 2002)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The location of North Head cannot be established from the available map evidence, but the name presumably applies to one of the headlands around NK 13 46.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 January 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3207
Name : FINLANDE
Latitude : 573030
Longitude : 14600
Registration : FRENCH
Type : MV
Tonnage : 1343
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 71
Beam : 12
Draught : 5m
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1944
Comment : Stranded on North Head, entr to Peterhead Hbr
Cargo : FISH
