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Baron Minto: Back Bar, Strathbeg Bay, North Sea
Steamship (20th Century)
Site Name Baron Minto: Back Bar, Strathbeg Bay, North Sea
Classification Steamship (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Peterhead; Rattray Head; Baron Minto
Canmore ID 208441
Site Number NK05NE 8004
NGR NK 09 59
NGR Description NK c. 09 59
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/208441
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK05NE 8004 c. 09 59
N57 37 W1 51
NLO: Rattray Head [name: NK 110 578]
Back Bar [name centred NK 079 594]
Peterhead [name: NK 135 465].
Possibly on map sheets or NK15NW.
(Classified as steel steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 30 October 1940). Baron Minto: this vessel stranded approximately 1 mile from the coastguard station at Strathbeg Bay.
Registration: Ardrossan. Built 1937. 4637grt. Length: 127m. Beam: 18m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 37.67 W1 52.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. Strathbeg Bay is not noted on the current edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. It is presumably to be equated with the large but shallow embayment to the NW of Rattray Head and opposite the Loch of Strathbeg [name centred NK 072 591].
The vessel presumably stranded within the extensive area of Back Bar, which forms the SW side of the bay. The 'coastguard station' that is mentioned is presumably to be identified as the 'Coastguard Lookout' (NK05NE 53) that is noted on the 1975 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map at NK 09289 58294 and NK 09282 58220.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3044
Name : BARON MINTO
Latitude : 573740
Longitude : 15200
Date Built : 1937
Registration : ARDROSSAN
Type : SS (STEEL)
Tonnage : 4637
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 127
Beam : 18
Draught : 7m
Loss Day : 30
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1940
Comment : Stranded approx 1 mile from the Coastguard Station at Strathbeg Bay
