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Petrel: North Sea
Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Site Name Petrel: North Sea
Classification Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) A 515; Peterhead; Buchan Ness; Petrel (A 515)
Canmore ID 207725
Site Number NE45NE 8001
NGR NE 48 57
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/207725
- Council Maritime
- Parish Maritime - Offshore
- Former Region Not Applicable
- Former District Not Applicable
- Former County Not Applicable
NE45NE 8001 unlocated
NLO: Buchan Ness [name: NK 137 422]
Peterhead [name: NK 135 465].
Formerly entered as NE40SW 8001 (unlocated) and assigned to the quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
(Classified as steel steam trawler: registration number cited as A 515, and date of loss as 4 June 1915). Petrel: this vessel was sunk by gunfire from submarine 55 miles NNE1/2E from Buchan Ness.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1902. 187 grt. Length: 33m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 30.0 W1 10.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are entirely arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 May 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 7522
Name : PETREL (A 515)
Latitude : 583000
Longitude : 11000
Date Built : 1902
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : STEAM TRAWLER(STEEL)
Tonnage : 187
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 33
Beam : 6
Draught : 3m
Loss Day : 4
Loss Month : 6
Loss Year : 1915
Comment : Sunk by gunfire from Submarine 55 miles NNEE from Buchan Ness.
