Aaffiena: Carnoustie Bay, North Sea
Schooner (20th Century)
Site Name Aaffiena: Carnoustie Bay, North Sea
Classification Schooner (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Aaffiena
Canmore ID 314566
Site Number NO53SE 8025
NGR NO 56 34
NGR Description NO c. 56 34
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Angus
- Parish Maritime - Angus
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
Loss (11 January 1913)
(Classified as iron schooner, with cargo of cotton seed and oil cake: date of loss cited as 11 January 1913). Aafiena: [this vessel] stranded at Carnoustie Bay.
Registration: Dutch. Built 1888. 79nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N56 29.75 W2 42.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (30 December 2011)
NLO: Carnoustie [name: NO 568 345]
Carnoustie Bay [name centred NO 568 340].
Note (30 December 2011)
(Location re-entered as NO c. 56 34 [N56 30 W2 43]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Carnoustie Bay is an ill-defined feature of uncertain extent.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 December 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2752
Name : AAFFIENA
Latitude : 562945
Longitude : 24230
Date Built : 1888
Registration : DUTCH
Type : SCHOONER (IRON)
Tonnage : 79
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 11
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1913
Comment : Stranded at Carnoustie Bay
Cargo : COTTON SEED,OIL CAKE