Felix: Throng Neck, Downies Point, North Sea
Barquentine (19th Century)
Site Name Felix: Throng Neck, Downies Point, North Sea
Classification Barquentine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Felix Brandt; Eastern Prince; Felix (Ex. Felix Brandt, ...)
Canmore ID 312727
Site Number NO88NE 8096
NGR NO 881 852
NGR Description NO c. 881 852
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
Loss (20 October 1898)
(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). Felix: [this vessel] stranded [on] Throng Neck, near Downies Point. Capt. Andersen.
Registration: Jonsturp [Jonstrup, Denmark]. Built 1858. 379grt. Length: 38m. Beam: 8m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 2.75 W2 7.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (5 September 2011)
NLO: Downie Point [name: NO 881 852]
Stonehaven [name: NO 878 855].
Formerly entered as NO99NW 8026.
Note (5 September 2011)
(Re-entered at cited location NO c. 881 852 [N56 57.5 W2 11.8]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Throng Neck is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 September 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3297
Name : FELIX (EX. FELIX BRANDT, ...)
Latitude : 570245
Longitude : 20700
Date Built : 1858
Registration : JONSTURP
Type : BARQUENTINE (WOOD)
Tonnage : 379
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 38
Beam : 8
Draught : 5m
Loss Day : 20
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1898
Comment : Stranded Throng Neck, near Downies Pt. Capt. Andersen
Cargo : COAL
