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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

Archaeology Notes

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.

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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

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