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Vildfugl: Fife Ness, North Sea

Motor Tanker (20th Century)-(1951), Tanker (20th Century)-(1951)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Vildfugl: Fife Ness, North Sea as Motor Tanker (20th Century)-(1951), Tanker (20th Century)-(1951). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Vildfugl was a Norwegian motor tanker built in 1951 that ran aground on Fife Ness, Scotland, in 1968 during a storm. The ship was carrying a cargo of oil, some of which was lost, but no fatalities were reported; the wreck is noted for its environmental and maritime heritage significance in Scottish waters.

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