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Fidelity: East Muck, Buckie, Spey Bay, Moray Firth
Motor Fishing Vessel (20th Century)
Site Name Fidelity: East Muck, Buckie, Spey Bay, Moray Firth
Classification Motor Fishing Vessel (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) East Mucks; Muck Rocks; Gordonsburgh; North Sea; Fidelity
Canmore ID 310881
Site Number NJ46NW 8037
NGR NJ 435 670
NGR Description NJ c. 435 670
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/310881
- Council Moray
- Parish Maritime - Moray
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ46NW 8037 c. 435 670
N57 41.4 W2 57.0
NLO: East Muck [name: NJ 435 670]
Gordonsburgh [name: NJ 434 662]
Spey Bay [name centred NJ 37 67]
Buckie [name: NJ 415 654].
(Classified as M[otor] F[ishing] V[essel]: date of loss cited as 17 August 1991). Fidelity: this vessel stranded on East Muck [East Muck], Buckie. Capt. Waddie.
Registration: Arbroath. Length: 15m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.50 W2 57.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The isolated stack of East Muck is situated 600m NNE of Bents Point, Gordonsburgh, and about 1km NE of Cluny Harbour, Gordonsburgh (NJ46NW 15.00).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 April 2011.
Loss (17 August 1991)
(Classified as M[otor] F[ishing] V[essel]: date of loss cited as 17 August 1991). Fidelity: this vessel stranded on East Muck [East Muck], Buckie. Capt. Waddie.
Registration: Arbroath. Length: 15m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.50 W2 57.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (27 April 2011)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The isolated stack of East Muck is situated 600m NNE of Bents Point, Gordonsburgh, and about 1km NE of Cluny Harbour, Gordonsburgh (NJ46NW 15.00).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 April 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 15858
Name : FIDELITY
Latitude : 574130
Longitude : 25700
Registration : ARBROATH
Type : MFV
Length : 15
Loss Day : 17
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1991
Comment : Stranded on East Mucks, Buckie. Capt. Waddie
