Dalewood: Dunnet Head, Pentland Firth
Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Site Name Dalewood: Dunnet Head, Pentland Firth
Classification Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) A481; 'below Dunnet Head Lighthouse'; North Sea; Dalewood (A 481)
Canmore ID 194072
Site Number ND17NE 8012
NGR ND 16667 75503
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/194072
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND17NE 8012 c. 203 768
N58 40.3 W3 22.5
NLO: Dunnet Head [name: ND 203 768]
Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet ND17NE.
The Aberdeen trawler Dalewood was fast on rocks at Dunnet Head. Her crew of eleven abandoned the Dalewood when she went aground under the 400 ft cliffs at Dunnet lighthouse [ND27NW 5]. All were picked up safely.
(Photo of Dalewood awash at the bottom of cliffs at Dunnet Head).
Source: Aberdeen Press and Journal, 5 March 1974.
(Classified as steel motor trawler: registration number cited as A481, and date of loss as 3 March 1974). Dalewood: this vessel stranded below Dunnet Head lighthouse [ND27NW 5].
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1960. 234grt. Length: 35m. Beam: 8m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.3 W3 22.48).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Dunnet Head Lighthouse (ND27NW 5.00) is at ND 20273 76775.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 April 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2488
Name : DALEWOOD (A 481)
Latitude : 584018
Longitude : 32229
Date Built : 1960
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : MOTOR TRAWLER(STEEL)
Tonnage : 234
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 35
Beam : 8
Draught : 3m
Position : Position Approximate
Loss Day : 3
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1974
Comment : Stranded below Dunnet Hd Lt Ho
Reference (March 2012)
Sitename : Dalewood: Dunnet Head, Pentland Firth
Altname : Dalewood (Possibly)
Note : Wreck at NGR 316667E 975503N identified by acoustic sensor survey in 2010. Wreck lies in 49 metres of water on a pebble seabed. and it has been suggested that this could be the Dalewood.
This site is MHG37435 in the Highland Historic Environment Record.
Sources :
SeaZone Hydrospatial OSGB36 Wrecks point,SeaZone,2010
UKHO wreck report,2012,937
