North Sea first air crossing memorial
Location
Cruden Bay approach to the beach
Cruden Bay, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
Description
A small monolith of pink Peterhead granite set upright on a rotunda of masonry itself set on a pavement of irregular slabs all in rough Peterhead granite, a bronze plaque has this inscription "From the sands of Cruden Bay on the 30th July 1914 the Norwegian Aviator Kommander Tryggve Gran D.F.C made the first crossing of the North Sea by air."
Underneath in smaller letters "RGC"
Era
1900s
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- David Watson Hood
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