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Felix: Downie Point, North Sea
Barquentine (19th Century)
Site Name Felix: Downie Point, North Sea
Classification Barquentine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Felix Brandt; Eastern Prince; Throng Neck; Downies Point; Stonehaven
Canmore ID 250279
Site Number NO88NE 8036
NGR NO 881 852
NGR Description NO c. 881 852
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/250279
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO88NE 8036 c. 881 852
N56 57.5 W2 11.7
NLO: Downie Point [name: NO 881 852]
Stonehaven [name: NO 878 855].
20 October 1898 FELIX, 39 years, of Sweden. Wood barquentine. 330 ton. 10 men, Master G. Andersen Owner G. Andersen and others Jonstrup, Sweden. E. Hartlepool to Malmo. Coal. 3 dead. Throng Neck, near Downies Point, Kincardineshire. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 721).
(Classified as wooden barquentine, with cargo of coal: former names cited as Felix Brandt and Eastern Prince, and date of loss as 20 October 1898). This vessel stranded on Throng Neck, near Downies [Downie] Point.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Throng Neck is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 September 2003.
