Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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14 FEBRUARY 1928

THE SMERDIS

The steel screw steamer SMERDIS – 220 feet in length, 34 feet in breadth, and 14 feet in depth – built by Ardrossan Dockyard Limited for J & P Hutchison Limited, Glasgow, was launched on the above date.

[Further details of this vessel, including four photographs, two as the SMEDRDIS, one by the later name MARICHU, and one by the subsequent name AGIOS NICOLAOS:-

https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?y ... sel=SARDIS
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GLASGOW HERALD
14 FEBRUARY 1901

ARDROSSAN – ACCIDENT AT THE HARBOUR

Yesterday afternoon FRANCIS COULTER, labourer, Harbour Lane, while working in the hold of the steamer LEILA, met with a serious accident. A piece of ore fell from the steep face at which he was working, striking him on the leg, and breaking it.

He was conveyed home on a stretcher.
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14 FEBRUARY

NEW ARDROSSAN HEADMASTER

Mr George Gibson, Fenwick, was appointed headmaster of Eglinton-Winton Public School, Ardrossan, at a meeting of Ayrshire Education Committee at Ayr yesterday. Mr Gibson is a graduate of Glasgow University.
The Scotsman, 14 February 1940

BANK AGENT’S DEATH
The death occurred yesterday of Mr Duncan L McLennan, Justice of the Peace, agent of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Ardrossan. Mr McLennan, who was a native of Fife, was previously accountant in the Ardrossan branch and had been agent for the past fourteen years. He was a former treasurer of Ardrossan Barony Church and was secretary of Ardrossan Castle Curling Club.
The Scotsman, 14 February 1940

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 FEBRUARY 1850

SHIP NEWS

Ardrossan, February 9 – The MARGARET, of Girvan for Sligo, is on the rocks in the harbour.
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GLASGOW HERALD
16 FEBRUARY 1920

FOOTBALL – SCOTTISH JUNIOR ASSOCIATION TEAM FOR IRVINE

At a meeting of the Scottish Junior Selection Committee held on Saturday night the following team was selected to oppose the Western League at Meadow Park, Irvine, on Saturday:-

Dempster (Newarthill Thistle); Bethune (Petershill); Welsh (Muirkirk Athletic); Orr (Burnbank Athletic); Henderson (Larkhall Thistle, captain); Murray (Girvan Athletic); Cameron (Duntocher Athletic); Dunn (St. Anthony’s); Picken (Dundee Violet); Kelly (Blantyre (Celtic); and Wallace (Muirkirk Athletic).

Reserve to travel, Morrison (Drongan Juniors).

The following is the side selected by the Western League:-

Langlands (Ardrossan Winton Rovers); Carroll (Kilbirnie Ladeside); McQuade (Neilston Victoria); Aitken (Kilbarchan Athletic); McLaughlan (Kilwinning Rangers); Brown (Renfrew Juniors); Bennett (Renfrew Juniors); McNay (Neilston Victoria); Cunningham (Irvine Meadow XI); Ramsay (Renfrew Juniors); and Meikle (Saltcoats Victoria).
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GLASGOW HERALD
16 FEBRUARY 1884

VESSEL AGROUND

The schooner ENTERPRISE, of Ardrossan, from Lochseaforth to Liverpool with deals, has gone ashore at Rhanbuoy, near Carrickfergus. She had been lying in Belfast Lough since the 4th inst., and during the recent gale parted her anchors and went ashore.

Should the weather moderate the vessel may be got off without serious injury.
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GLASGOW HERALD
16 FEBRUARY 1852

SHIP NEWS

CITY OF GLASGOW, Muir, of and from Clyde for Calcutta (put into Ardrossan windbound, and from stress of weather), sailed thence on her voyage 10th instant.
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GLASGOW HERALD
16 FEBRUARY 1888

ARDROSSAN – LONG PASSAGE OF A NORWEGIAN VESSEL

Last night the brigantine HARDANGERER arrived at Ardrossan from Trondheim, Norway, with a cargo of timber for Messrs Russell and Fullarton. She left Trondheim two months ago, and on the voyage was thrice stormstayed at Lerwick, after the first occasion being driven by headwinds back to Norway.

The passage generally occupies twelve days.
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16 FEBRUARY

AYRSHIRE POLICE CHANGES

Inspector Thomas Hardie of the Ayrshire Constabulary who has been stationed at Troon for the past fourteen years, retired from the service on Sunday and is succeeded by Inspector Archibald Thomson, Ardrossan, promoted from the rank of sergeant. Inspector Hardie has served in the police for thirty-seven years, three of these being spent in the County of Peebles. Inspector Thomson joined the Ayrshire Constabulary about seventeen years ago and was promoted to the rank of sergeant in 1931.
The Scotsman, 16 February 1937

ARDROSSAN ACADEMY TEACHER’S APPOINTMENT
Mr Alexander F Gauld, specialist teacher of geography in Ardrossan Academy, has been appointed principal teacher of geography at Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh.
The Scotsman, 16 February 1944

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17 FEBRUARY 1862

THE MARIA McMILLAN

The wooden sailing schooner MARIA McMILLAN – 80 feet in length, 19 feet in breadth, and 10 feet in depth – built by Barr& Shearer, Ardrossan, for Alexander McMillan, Peter McMillan, and Hugh Boyd, Ardrossan, was launched on the above date.

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https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?y ... A+MCMILLAN
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GLASGOW HERALD
17 FEBRUARY 1851

SHIP NEWS

Ardrossan, February 8 – The stern of a vessel has come on shore on the Horse Island; apparently not long in the water. A part of it has a charred appearance, as if by fire. There is no name, and very little ornamental painting, but there are five imitation windows, after the form of Venetian blinds.

The vessel to which it belonged was American built.
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18 FEBRUARY 1861

THE PAULINE

The schooner PAULINE, on a voyage from Ardrossan to Rouen, France, with a cargo of railway iron, was driven onto the Crow Bar in the Scilly Isles.
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