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Snowflight: Doirlinn, Loch Moidart
Auxiliary Ketch (20th Century)
Site Name Snowflight: Doirlinn, Loch Moidart
Classification Auxiliary Ketch (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Turrin Castle'; Dorlin; Cul Doirlinn; Castle Tioram; Snowflight
Canmore ID 293672
Site Number NM67SE 8002
NGR NM 66 72
NGR Description NM c. 66 72
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NM67SE 8002 c. 66 72
N56 47 W5 50
NLO: Loch Moidart [name centred NM 682 733]
Cul Doirlinn [name: NM 665 721].
(Classified as Auxiliary Ketch, with cargo of coal and anthracite: date of loss cited as 31 July 1924). Snowflight: this vessel stranded near Turrin Castle [Castle Tioram], Dorlin [Doirlinn], Loch Moidart. All gone, but constructive total loss?
Registration: Kirkcaldy. Built 1898. Length: 19m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 47.0 W5 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Dorlin is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but Cul Doirlinn is noted at NM 665 721; Dorlin House (NM67SE 21) is at NM 6647 7211. 'Turrin Castle' is presumably to be equated with Castle Tioram (NM67SE 1), at NM 66211 72431.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 April 2008.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 1397
Name : SNOWFLIGHT
Latitude : 564700
Longitude : 55000
Date Built : 1898
Registration : KIRKCALDY
Type : AUX. KETCH
Tonnage : 43
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 19
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 31
Loss Month : 7
Loss Year : 1924
Comment : Stranded near Turrin Castle, Dorlin, Loch Moidart. AG but CTL?
Cargo : COAL, ANTHRACITE