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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

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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.

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