Maritime record 2195 - ARNOLD: BOGHAICHEAN CEANN SHOA, EILEAN IOMALLACH, COLL

NM15SE 8001 1540 5067
N56 33.7 W 6 37.9

Formerly:

NA00SE 9484 0601 0197
N 57 50 W 8 38.5

Quality of fix = PA
Horizontal Datum = UND

Circumstances of Loss Details
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The steamer ARNOLD, out of Belfast, went ashore on Soay Island.
Source; Lloyds.

Surveying Details
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17 July 1970. The vessel ran aground on Soay Island.
Source; Lloyds.

The position given is 57 50 00N, 008 38 30W for filing only and not for charting.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

The Swedish steamship Arnold left Belfast for the Hamble on the 17th January 1925. Comntemporary reports of her loss are brief stating only that she ran aground on rocks of Soa, Coll. Although crew managed to escape safely the ship was reported aground with the forepart full of water and stern on the rocks. Within hours she broke in two and became a total wreck.
There is a large wreck lying to the west of the northernmost of three rocks which are charted and break the water at low tide to the south west of Eilean Iomacllach. The authors are of the opinion that this may be the ARNOLD. The wreck lies in position 56 33 42N, 6 37 59W (GPS fix). The wreck is pointing north and lies along the side of the reef in depths of 8-12 metres. She has clearly been the subject of heavy salvage but otherwise is probably not often dived despite her proximity to the popular TAPTI. Many of the major structues are visible including boilers, engines, propellor shaft with broken cast propellor still attached and stern steering gear. Her holds and some of the deck structure are also still apparent. The site is exposed to the south east and could be subject to some tidal flow.
Source; Moir and Crawford 1994.

P and I Moir and Crawford, 1994, Argyll Shipwrecks, 154-5 154 (Bibliographic reference). SWE36311.

B Baird, 1995, Shipwrecks of the West of Scotland, 201-2 (Bibliographic reference). SWE35761.