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Blackwhale: North Sea
Whaler (20th Century)
Site Name Blackwhale: North Sea
Classification Whaler (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Fife Ness'; Blackwhale
Canmore ID 120978
Site Number NO60NW 8012
NGR NO
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO60NW 8012 unlocated
NLO: Fife Ness (name: NO 638 098).
Formerly entered at cited locations NO 6400 0975 (N56 16.7 W2 34.8) and NO c. 63 09 (N56 16 W2 36), and classified as Craft.
Possibly on map sheet NO61SW.
(Classified as whaler: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 3 January 1918). Blackwhale: this vessel was mined off Fife Ness.
Registration: British. 237grt.
(Location of loss cited as N56 20.00 W2 30.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 October 2003.
Loss (3 January 1918)
(Classified as whaler: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 3 January 1918). Blackwhale: this vessel was mined off Fife Ness.
Registration: British. 237grt.
(Location of loss cited as N56 20.00 W2 30.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (10 October 2003)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 October 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 127
Name : BLACKWHALE
Latitude : 562000
Longitude : 23000
Registration : BRITISH
Type : WHALER
Tonnage : 237
Tonnage Code : G
Loss Day : 3
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1918
Comment : Mined off Fife Ness
