Kensington: Cailiness Point, Luce Bay, Solway Firth
Brigantine (19th Century)
Site Name Kensington: Cailiness Point, Luce Bay, Solway Firth
Classification Brigantine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kensingham; Drummore; 'inside Killiness Point, Mull Of Galloway'; Killiness Point; Drummore; Rhinns Of Galloway
Canmore ID 252999
Site Number NX13NE 8011
NGR NX 152 356
NGR Description NX c. 152 356
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NX13NE 8011 c. 15 35
N54 40.9 W4 52
NLO: Cailiness Point [name: NX 152 356]
Luce Bay [name centred NX 20 45]
Mull of Galloway [name: NX 157 302]
Drummore [name: NX 138 368].
Location formerly entered as NX c. 15 35 [N54 41 W4 52].
Drummore, 6th Dec., 4.55 p.m., brigantine KENSINGTON, of Whitehaven, Grainson master, from Maryport to Belfast, coal, sprung a leak at sea, ran ashore Drummore, Luce bay.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,850, London, Friday December 7 1877.
Stranraer, 6th Dec., 3.39 p.m., brigantine KENSINGHAM (?KENSINGTON), of Whitehaven, with coal, from Maryport to Belfast, is ashore inside Killiness point, Mull of Galloway, sunk: will ebb at low water. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4706).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
This stranding is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998); the vessel may have been successfully refloated.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 December 2003.
