2019
NO6308 : Kilminning Castle
taken 5 years ago, near to Kirklands, Fife, Scotland
Kilminning Castle
The 'Castle' is a natural sandstone sea stack bombed during WW2 with bags of flour as practice by the RAF.
The Aberdeen steam trawler JANE ROSS ran ashore near Kilminning between Fifeness and Crail on Friday night. The crew were rescued by Crail fishermen, and the services of Anstruther lifeboat were not required. The vessel was bound from Aberdeen to Methil to coal when she stranded. The crew launched their small boat, but the painter snapped, and the boat drifted away to shore without them. It was later secured and anchored by a Crail fisherman. The trawler was aground at a notoriously dangerous spot about 200 yards from a house. The Crail vessel MAPLE LEAF set out and rescued the crew of nine and their belongings.
East Fife Observer, 20 September 1934.
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