Loch Assater: North Sea
Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Site Name Loch Assater: North Sea
Classification Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) A 321; Peterhead; Noss Head; Moray Firth; Loch Assater (A 321)
Canmore ID 208437
Site Number NE56SW 8001
NGR NE 50 64
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/208437
- Council Maritime
- Parish Maritime - Offshore
- Former Region Not Applicable
- Former District Not Applicable
- Former County Not Applicable
NE56SW 8001 unlocated
NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465].
Formerly entered as NK24NE 8002 (unlocated), within the quasi-administrative area defined as Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
(Classified as steel, steam trawler: registration number cited as A 321, and date of loss as 22 March 1940). Loch Assater: this vessel was sunk by a British mine.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1910. 210grt. Length: 25m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 34.0 W1 8.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the unverifued location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The cited location falls about 114km ENE of Noss Head, and the loss may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area defined as Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 May 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 187
Name : LOCH ASSATER (A 321)
Latitude : 583400
Longitude : 10800
Date Built : 1910
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : STEAM TRAWLER(STEEL)
Tonnage : 210
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 35
Beam : 7
Draught : 4m
Position : Position Approximate
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1940
Comment : Sunk by British mine
