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Kestrel: Kingscross Point, Arran, Firth Of Clyde
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Kestrel: Kingscross Point, Arran, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kings Cross Point; Holy Island; Lamlash Bay; Outer Clyde Estuary; Kestrel
Canmore ID 112916
Site Number NS02NE 8010
NGR NS 056 283
NGR Description NS c. 056 283
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/112916
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - North Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS02NE 8010 c. 056 283
N55 30.6 W5 4.7
NLO: Kingscross Point [name: NS 056 283]
Lamlash Bay [name centred NS 038 306]
Holy Island [name: NS 06 30].
Formerly entered as Site no. 9335 at cited location NS 0618 2741 (N55 30.11 W5 4.09)
4 Jan 1886, KESTREL, 45 yrs old, registered Maryport, wooden brig, 184 tons, 5 crew. Master R. Little, Owner J. Abbott, Maryport. Departed Maryport for Londonderry carrying coal. Wind NNW6, stranded Kings Cross Point, Arran, Firth of Clyde.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1904).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 4 January 1886). Kestrel: this vessel stranded at Kings Cross [Kingscross] Point, Arran. Capt. Little.
Registration: Maryport. Built 1841. 184 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 30.67 W5 4.75).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 January 2006.
NS 056 283. Site identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.
M Cressey and S Badger 2005.
NMRS, MS/4040.
Loss (4 January 1886)
4 Jan 1886, KESTREL, 45 yrs old, registered Maryport, wooden brig, 184 tons, 5 crew. Master R. Little, Owner J. Abbott, Maryport. Departed Maryport for Londonderry carrying coal. Wind NNW6, stranded Kings Cross Point, Arran, Firth of Clyde.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1904).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 4 January 1886). Kestrel: this vessel stranded at Kings Cross [Kingscross] Point, Arran. Capt. Little.
Registration: Maryport. Built 1841. 184 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 30.67 W5 4.75).
I G Whittaker 1998.
External Reference (2005)
NS 056 283. Site identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.
M Cressey and S Badger 2005.
NMRS, MS/4040.
Note (5 January 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 January 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 598
Name : KESTREL
Latitude : 553040
Longitude : 50445
Date Built : 1841
Registration : MARYPORT
Type : BRIG (WOOD)
Tonnage : 184
Loss Day : 4
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1886
Comment : Stranded at Kings Cross Point, Arran. Capt. Little
Cargo : COAL
