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Resmilo: Peterhead Bay, North Sea
Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Site Name Resmilo: Peterhead Bay, North Sea
Classification Steam Trawler (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) St 258; 'east Of Peterhead'; Peterhead, Outer Harbour, Entrance; Peterhead Harbour, South Breakwater; Resmilo
Canmore ID 208455
Site Number NK14NW 8305
NGR NK 13 45
NGR Description NK c. 13 45
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK14NW 8305 c. 13 45
N57 30 W1 47
NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465]
Peterhead Bay [name centred NJ 131 454].
Formerly entered as NE15NW 8001 (Unlocated).
Possibly on map sheet NK14SW.
(Classified as Steel Trawler: date of loss cited as 20 June 1941). Resmilo: this vessel was sunk by aircraft in Peterhead Bay, at the end of the South Breakwater.
Registration: Grimsby. Built 1917. 258grt. Length: 37m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 29.8 W1 46.2).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially tentative. The location cited by Whittaker remains unverified. Peterhead Bay forms the Outer Harbour or harbour of refuge (NK14NW 128.10) at Peterhead, and the (Northern) end of the South Breakwater (NK14NW 128.07) is at NK 1355 4517.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 January 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 217
Name : RESMILO
Latitude : 572948
Longitude : 14612
Date Built : 1917
Registration : GRIMSBY
Type : TRAWLER (STEEL)
Tonnage : 258
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 37
Beam : 7
Draught : 4m
Loss Day : 20
Loss Month : 6
Loss Year : 1941
Comment : Sunk by A/C in Peterhead Bay at the end of the south breakwater.
