Press Home: Portlethen, North Sea
Drifter (20th Century)
Site Name Press Home: Portlethen, North Sea
Classification Drifter (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bck 7; Press Home (Bck 7)
Canmore ID 312697
Site Number NO99NW 8019
NGR NO 93 96
NGR Description NO c. 93 96
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
Loss (26 November 1924)
(Classified as drifter: registration cited as BCK 7, and date of loss as 26 November 1924). Press Home: [this vessel was] wrecked at Portlethen.
Registration: Port Gordon [Portgordon]. Built 1908. 77grt. Length: 26m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 3.75 W2 6.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (1 September 2011)
NLO: Portlethen Village [name: NO 932 962]
Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].
Note (1 September 2011)
(Location entered as NO c. 93 96 [N57 3 W2 7]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 September 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13146
Name : PRESS HOME (BCK 7)
Latitude : 570345
Longitude : 20600
Date Built : 1908
Registration : PORT GORDON
Type : DRIFTER
Tonnage : 77
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 26
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 26
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1924
Comment : Wrecked at Portlethen.