Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 MAY 1928

CLYDE STEAMER TO BE BROKEN UP

The well-known Clyde and West Highland paddle steamer GRENADIER, owned by Messrs David MacBrayne (Limited), Glasgow, was towed from Greenock to Ardrossan yesterday to be broken up.

[A good photograph of the GRENADIER is available in the following link:-

http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ye ... =GRENADIER

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 MAY 1917

DEATH ON SERVICE

CLARKSON: Killed in action, on 5th May, 1917, DAVID BIRRELL CLARKSON, Lieutenant, Canadian Expeditionary Force, St. John, New Brunswick, second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Clarkson, 10 South Crescent, Ardrossan, and late of St. John, New Brunswick.

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13 MAY 1865

LAUNCH

Barr & Shearer, Ardrossan, launched the wooden sailing vessel schooner CHASE.

Details of the vessel are available on the following link:-

http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ye ... ssel=CHASE

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 MAY 1881

ARDROSSAN – LAUNCH

There was launched yesterday forenoon from the shipyard of Messrs Barr & Shearer a beautifully modelled three-masted schooner, which has been built expressly for the Newfoundland fish trade.

The principal owner is Captain Hendry, who has been most successful as a shipmaster in the East India trade.

The launch was a most successful one, and as the vessel took the ways she was christened the “JOHN SMITH” by Miss Maggie Smith.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1902

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE HARBOUR

Yesterday morning JAMES KAY, labourer, was killed on board the steamer BALMORAL at Ardrossan Harbour.

Huge logs of wood were being shipped at the time, and Kay was crushed between one of these and the mast. He was severely injured about the head and chest, and died almost immediately afterwards.

Kay resided in Saltcoats, and he leaves a widow and family.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 MAY 1930

MOTOR VESSEL LAUNCHED AT ARDROSSAN

The motor vessel LOCHMOR, the last of four ships, which Messrs David MacBrayne (1928) Limited, Glasgow, are adding to their fleet, was launched yesterday.

The vessel, which has been built by the Ardrossan Dockyard Limited, is similar to the Lochearn, launched by the same firm for Messrs MacBrayne about a fortnight ago.

The ceremony of naming and launching the LOCHMOR yesterday was performed by Mrs. J. W. Ratledge, wife of Mr. Ratledge, a director of Coast Lines Limited and Messrs MacBrayne.

[A photograph of the LOCHMOR is available in the following link:-

http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ye ... el=LOCHMOR

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1946

LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN

The coastal cargo steamer, ULSTER DUCHESS, built by Ardrossan Dockyard Limited for the Belfast Steamship Company Limited was launched yesterday.

The new vessel was christened by Mrs. Nutting, wife of Captain A. R. S. Nutting, OBE, MC, vice-chairman of Coast Lines Limited.

[Additional details can be obtained via the following link:-

http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ye ... ER+DUCHESS

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LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN
18 MAY 1855

The wooden two-master sailing brig ANNE DUNCAN, built by Barr & Shearer, Ardrossan, for John Walker, Glasgow, was launched at Ardrossan Harbour.

[Additional details can be obtained via the following link:-

http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ye ... NNE+DUNCAN

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 MAY 1922

LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN

The Ardrossan Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company have launched the closed shelter steamer BAYESKIMO, of 1250 tons deadweight, 210 feet in length, 33 feet 6 inches in breadth, 14 feet 9 inches in depth, and of a designed speed of 10 knots.

The triple expansion engines will be supplied by Messrs John Kincaid and Company, Greenock.

[A photograph of the BAYESKIMO and other details are available on the following link:-

http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ye ... =BAYESKIMO

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ARDROSSAN SHIP TORPEDOED
20 MAY 1917

The cargo vessel LADY PATRICIA, built by Ardrossan Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company, and launched in December 1915, was torpedoed by U-Boat 46 about 90 Miles west of the Skelligs, off County Kerry, Ireland.

She was serving as a Q Ship, which is a heavily armed decoy vessel – 31 lives were lost.

[Additional information about this vessel is available in the following links:-

http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ye ... Y+PATRICIA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Paxton

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20 MAY 1923 - SALE OF WINTON PARK

On 20 May 1923, the Right Honourable Archibald Seton Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton and Winton sold Winton Park to three Ardrossan businessmen - plumber Charles Price, shipping agent Robert William Cochrane and joiner James Barbour for £160.

George

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 MAY 1917

G.R.

NOTICE

ISSUED BY THE SENIOR NAVAL OFFICER, ARDROSSAN, UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE DEFENCE OF THE REALM (CONSOLIDATION) (REGULATIONS), 1914.

RESTRICTIONS ON CRUISING OF YACHTS, MOTOR BOATS, PLEASURE BOATS, Etc., in THE FIRTH OF CLYDE (to come into force forthwith).

1. With a view to increasing the facilities for hand-line fishing in the Firth of Clyde, Yachts, Motor Boats, Pleasure Boats, Open Pulling Boats, etc., are hereby permitted to be under way for that purpose within half a mile of the shore until one hour after sunset, subject to limitations set forth in paragraphs 2 and 3.

2. This Order shall be in force during the months May to October inclusive each year and shall apply to the shores of islands within and of the mainland so far as they border upon the waters which lie between the lines drawn from Ardmore Point, Dunbartonshire, to Newark Castle, Port Glasgow, and from Ottercharach Point, Cantyre, to Corsewall Point, Wigtownshire, except as stated in Paragraph 3.

3. This order does not apply to:-

(i) The shore within one hundred yards of either end of the Clyde Boom Defence.
(ii) The shores of Loch Long above the line drawn from Chap Point to Glenmallan.
(iii) The coast of Ayrshire from a point one mile north of Ardrossan Harbour to a point a quarter of a mile south thereof.
(iv) The coast of Ayrshire from Saltcoats Harbour to Irvine Harbour.
(v) The coast of the Island of Bute from Bogany Point South-about to Kildavanan Point.
(vi) The Western shore of Inchmarnock Island.
(vii) The Western shore of Great Cumbrae from Tomont End to Portachur Point.
(viii) The Western shore of Little Cumbrae from Sheanawally Point to Gull Point.
(ix) The Eastern shore of Holy Island.

Where the provisions of previous Orders shall remain unaltered.

4. Previous Orders, together with the conditions prescribed on Yacht Permits, are hereby amended accordingly.

5. A breach of this order will constitute an offence under the Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) (Regulations), 1914, and will be dealt with accordingly.

A. G. WRIGHT,
Commander R.N.
Senior Naval Officer, Ardrossan.
Competent Naval Authority.

H.M.S. “Pactolus” Ardrossan
16 May, 1917