Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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VESSEL BOMBED
5 APRIL 1941

THE OPTIC

The steel screw steamer OPTIC, built by Ardrossan Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company Limited for the Belfast Steam Ship Company Limited and launched on the 15th of March 1921, while on a voyage between Leith and Stromness, was bombed and sunk 8 miles NNE of Aberdeen.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 APRIL 1883

BIRTH

McCALL: At Barr Street, Ardrossan, on the 4th instant, the wife of JOHN McCALL, engineer; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 APRIL 1920

FOOTBALL
SCOTTISH JUNIOR CUP – 7TH ROUND – REPLAY

Parkhead, 4; Ardrossan Winton Rovers, 0.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 APRIL 1879

ARDROSSAN – THE UNEMPLOYED FUND

The published abstract of the committee in charge of the fund shows that the total receipts amounted to £61 16s 6d, the expenditure being £54 16 7½d, leaving a balance of £6 19s 10½d, after the deduction of an unsettled claim of £1, which has been lodged in the bank for future contingencies.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 APRIL 1880

SHIPPING CASUALTY

The CHARLIE HICKMAN, Captain Rutherford, from Ardrossan, laden with pig iron, put into Belfast Lough on April 4 leaky, but has since sailed for Ardrossan.

VESSEL SPOKEN

SUSIE (of Ardrossan), bound south, February 14, in latitude 6N, longitude 26W.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 APRIL 1921

FARMER KILLED ON RAILWAY

Mr Dugald McKinnon, farmer, was run over and killed by a passenger train from Glasgow at South Beach Station, Ardrossan, on Monday.

Deceased, who was at one time in Poteath Farm, West Kilbride, and was later an auctioneer, went out to Canada about 10 years ago and took up farming there.

He was home on a visit along with his wife, and they were staying with relatives in Saltcoats. He was 57 years of age.

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SATURDAY 6th APRIL 1972

BEITH FINISH IN DEADLY FASHION

BEITH 3 – ARDROSSAN WINTON ROVERS 1

The pitch was not in any condition for good football, being hard and bumpy and the players had difficulty in controlling the ball.

Winton’s opening goal in the fifth minute was a long ball down the middle which broke badly for Sheridan and McIlroy had an easy task to left-foot the ball into the net.

Brown in the Winton goal was having a good game and had two good saves from Balmer headers.

The Winton forwards were putting in a lot of work but their finishing shots were giving Dunn no trouble.

In the 34th minute, Ballmer got the equaliser when he sent in a shot from the edge of the box which Brown appeared to have covered but the ball struck Hay and ended in the corner of the net.

The second half was evenly contested until the last ten minutes when the Beith forwards gave Winton a lesson on taking chances.

In the 85th minute, McGill took a corner on the right which came to Brown who sent a rocket shot into the roof of the net and with a minute to go, McGill hit a ball from 20 yards which Brown never saw.

Best for Winton were Brown, P Clarke and McIlroy and for Beith Dunn, McKinley and Friel.

Beith: Dunn; Smith, McDermid, Monan, Sheridan, McKinley, Brown, Balmer, Friel, McGill and Newman.

Winton Rovers: Browne; Hay, McColl, Sanderson, P Clarke, Hankinson, Cameron, J Clarke, McIlroy, Evans and Quinn.

Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, 12th April 1974

Susan

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VESSEL STRANDED
7 APRIL 1953

THE CARRICK COAST

The general cargo vessel CARRICK COAST, built by Ardrossan Dockyard Limited for Coast Lines Limited, Liverpool, and launched on the 3rd of July, 1934, and by now renamed the ZULU COAST, was stranded in fog 2 miles north of the Groene River while on a voyage between Cape Town, South Africa, and Port Nolloth, South Africa.

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 APRIL 1888

DEATH

COOK: At 174 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on the 3rd instant, after a lingering illness, aged 69 years, CHARLES COOK, portioner.

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 APRIL 1887

NEW HARBOUR WORKS AT ARDROSSAN

We understand that the directors of the Ardrossan Harbour Company yesterday settled the contract for the execution of these important works, and that operations will be commenced early next week.

The expenditure under the contract will be about £160,000, and the company has entrusted the work to the well-known contractor, Mr George Lawson, of Rutherglen.

The works have been carefully designed by Mr Strain, Civil Engineer, Glasgow, with a view to giving accommodation necessary for a large increase of trade, and so as to admit of future extensions.

The harbour is to be equipped with the newest hydraulic appliances sufficient for the speedy and economic shipment of over one million tons of coal per annum.

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GLASGOW HERALD
8 APRIL 1880

MARRIAGE

HOGARTH – BARBOUR: At 2 Clutha Villa, Ardrossan, on 6th instant, by Rev. J. D. McCall, ROBERT BARCLAY HOGARTH, merchant, to JANET ALEXANDER, only daughter of the late Robert Barbour, Glengarnock.

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GLASGOW HERALD
8 APRIL 1960

TRAWLER LAUNCH

A trawler for local owners was launched yesterday by the Ardrossan Dockyard.

The trawler, which was named ELIZABETH PATON by Lady Ure Primrose, is for the Ardrossan Trawling Company Limited, and is 104 feet long, 23 feet broad, and 12 feet in depth.

She will be propelled by a Widdon diesel engine.