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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 839759
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/839759
NG72NE 8016 c. 758 264
N57 16.4 W5 43.2
NLO: Kyleakin [name: NG 754 263]
Loch Alsh [name centred NG 80 25]
Kyle Akin [name centred NG 758 268]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
Not to be confused with the 1851 loss of the Swift, for which see NG72NE 8014.
Kyleakin, the SNIPE (brgtne.), of Glasgow (Off. No., 33,812), Trainor, from Liverpool to Tayport, with salt, drove on Castlemoil rock, in this sound, and remains with the tide flowing into her: cargo all lost: the vessel has been condemned, and will be sold on the 10th April.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,400, London, Thursday April 10 1873.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3954).
(Classified as brigantine, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as April 1873). Snipe: this vessel stranded on Castlemoil Rock, and was condemned: to be sold in August. Capt. Trainer. [Off. no.] 33812.
Registration: Glasgow.
(Location of loss cited as N57 17.0 W5 42.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The tower-house of Castle Moyle or Castlemoyle [Caisteal Maol: NG72NE 1] is at NG 7580 2634. Castlemoil Rock is presumably the prominent coastal knoll upon which it stands.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 August 2004.
