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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

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.

Activities

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

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