Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 OCTOBER 1882

BIRTH

BALLANTINE: At 2 South Crescent, Ardrossan, on the 11th instant, Mrs. George Ballantine, junior; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 OCTOBER 1925

SALE OF WORK

A sale of work in aid of the extension fund of Ardrossan Y.M.C.A. Boys’ Club realised £90.

[George Ardrossan]

14 OCTOBER

BIRTH - THOMSON
Birth – Thomson. At Elrig, North Crescent, Ardrossan, on 13 October 1937, to Mr and Mrs William Thomson (Elizabeth Borland), a son.
The Scotsman, 14 October 1937

George

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 OCTOBER 1889

FOOTBALL
ARDROSSAN v. KILMALCOLM

At Ardrossan and resulted in the defeat of the Kilmalcolm players by 3 goals to 2.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 OCTOBER 1889

THE MISSING IRVINE SLOOP

It is now regarded as beyond doubt that the sloop CLAUGH LOUDOUN, which sailed from Irvine with coal for Campbeltown on 24th September, has been lost with all hands.

With a fair wind the passage to Campbeltown is made in about ten hours.

JOHN McKENZIE, the master, resided in Ardrossan.

The Claugh Loudoun was a vessel of 31 tons register, and carried about 50 tons cargo. She was built at Garlieston, Wigtownshire, in 1847, but though an old vessel is said to have been in fair condition. Her sails and rigging were, however, observed before she left port to have been scarcely in a fit state to weather a gale.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 OCTOBER 1874

SHIPPING CASUALTIES

Campbeltown, October 14:
The JAMES McGEE, of and from Ardrossan for Belfast, with coals, sprung a leak of Corsewall, ran for this harbour, and was beached to prevent sinking.

Ardglass, October 14:
The POSIE (brigantine), from Ardrossan, to Sagua La Grande, Cuba, with coal, struck on the Ringfad Rocks, near this place, and foundered. Crew saved.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 OCTOBER 1966

FIVE YEARS’ DETENTION FOR ASSAULTS

After an incident in an Ardrossan youth club, it was said in the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, that one of the combatants, Ronald Brown, (18), labourer, 5 Dougrie Street, Castlemilk, Glasgow, left the hall boasting he had stabbed four people.

After a quarrel had been picked with one of the local youths, HUGH O’HARE, farm labourer, 73 Clyde Terrace, Ardrossan, who was first struck on the chin with a belt, Brown stabbed him in the stomach.

Brown next attacked ALEXANDER INNES HUGHES, coal carrier, 18 Kirkhall Drive, Ardrossan, by stabbing him. The wound penetrated the right lung and the liver and as a result Hughes was detained in hospital for a month.

Both attacks, said Mr. Cox (Advocate Depute), were to the danger of life.

Brown then struck ROBERT DIROM, (16), of 25 Busbie Drive, Ardrossan, and his sister GALE, (15), with a belt.

[George Ardrossan]

15 OCTOBER

ARDROSSAN MINISTER APPLYING FOR SUCCESSOR
The Rev R M Adamson, DD (shown below in the early 1900s), Saint John's Church of Scotland, Ardrossan (shown below in 1913), has intimated to his congregation that he is applying to the November meeting of the Presbytery for a colleague and successor. Dr Adamson, who had the degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred on him by Edinburgh University in 1931, has occupied the pulpit of Saint John's for forty-five years.

The Scotsman, 15 October 1937

George

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I'm reminded that the Rev. and Mrs. Adamson lost two sons in the 1914-18 War, both in 1917 - Lieutenant ROBERT THORBURN ADAMSON, (23), on the 23rd of April; and Lieutenant GEORGE ADDIS ADAMSON, (19), on the 12th of October.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 OCTOBER 1871

COMMERCIAL NEWS

The following were the shipments of pig iron at Ardrossan Harbour during the week ending October 14:-

Foreign – 782 tons; Coastwise – 1996 tons; Total – 2778 tons.

[George Ardrossan]

17 OCTOBER

ARDROSSAN FACTORY’S WAR RECORD
During the war, the Ardrossan refinery of the Shell Refining and Marketing Company Limited handled about one-and-a-half millions tons of oil. In addition, the Company operated a can factory erected for the Air Ministry at Inches Road and another one at Glenfoot erected for the War Office. Under their charge also was camouflaged underground storage for oil, built at Montfode, both for the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Supply.
The Scotsman, 17 October 1945

ARDROSSAN GAS BILL
The Ardrossan Gas Provisional Order Bill was given its third reading in the House of Lords yesterday.
The Scotsman, 17 October 1946

George

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 OCTOBER 1903

SHIP AGROUND

The Drumbain of London, 1461 tons, (James skipper), went ashore at Brims, a few miles west from Thurso early on Thursday morning.

The boat had a stormy passage through the Pentland Firth, and as the weather was thick the mate in charge could not see Dunnet Head Lighthouse, and was unaware that he was so close to land. The skipper was below when she struck.

The steamer is little damaged, but she is now broadside on the rocks, and with low tides at present there is little hope of her being got off. An unsuccessful attempt was made yesterday.

The crew of 22 hands all told were saved.

The Drumbain was bound from Ardrossan to Memel, in ballast.