Loss

Date 18 September 1882

Event ID 630299

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/630299

18 September 1882, CYGNET, 34 yrs old, of Glasgow, iron S.S., 62 tons, 9 crew, Master H. McLachlan, Owner D. McBrayne, Glasgow, departed Glasgow for various places in the Western Highlands, carrying sheep smearing (sic) material, wind calm, stranded, total loss, Loch Aylort [Loch Ailort], Inverness.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).

CYGNET, of Glasgow, Official No. 3,161.

Table III: List of the 184 Steamers totally lost included in Table 1 of this Appendix, with the Builder's Name and Address in each case if known.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).

CYGNET (s), of Mac Bragne's Royal Highland Line, which left Tobermory, Sept. 18, for the north, and was delivering tar and butter, and collecting wool along the coast, struck on a sunken rock in Loch Moidart [Ailort], Sept. 19, and sank immediately. The crew are safe. The cargo, consisting of tar, butter, wool, &c., is being washed ashore. (Glasgow, Sept. 21). [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3307).

(Classified as iron paddle steamship, with cargo of shearing equipment: former name cited as Ben Nevis, and date of loss as 18 September 1882). Cygnet: this vessel stranded in Loch Aylort [Ailort]. Capt. McLachlan. (Never sailed as Ben Nevis).

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1848. 101grt. Length: 23m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 51.00 W5 44.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.