Maritime record MHG48339 - Miranda: North Sea

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Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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Full Description

NMRS Report: (16/05/2005)
ND75SE 8001 unlocated

NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465].

See also ND73NW 8001.

(Classified as steel steamship, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 21 January 1940). Miranda: this vessel was torpedoed by U22 at German position AN1681. (Allied 30 miles NW of Peterhead?).
Registration: Bergen. Built 1920. 1326 grt. Length: 71m. Beam: 11m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 27.0 W2 21.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 April 2005.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 271708.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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