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Snipe: Caisteal Maol, Kyle Akin
Brigantine (19th Century)
Site Name Snipe: Caisteal Maol, Kyle Akin
Classification Brigantine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Castlemoil Rock; Kyleakin; Sound Of Skye; Loch Alsh; Snipe
Canmore ID 262648
Site Number NG72NE 8016
NGR NG 758 264
NGR Description NG c. 758 264
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/262648
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
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.
Loss (April 1873)
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.
Note (11 August 2004)
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.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13339
Name : SNIPE
Latitude : 571700
Longitude : 54200
Registration : GLASGOW
Type : BRIGANTINE
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1873
Comment : Stranded on Castlemoil Rk, condemned, to be sold in August. Capt. Trainer 33812
Cargo : SALT
