Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 OCTOBER 1879

DEATH

BELL: Suddenly, at 111 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on the 17th instant, Rachel Urquhart, aged 42, wife of Lawrence Bell.
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Hughie wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:41 pm Further to the above mentioned vessel Contest

The launch of the Contest was the first big local event to
be covered by the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald which declared:-

'It is not a little gratifying that a town' which fifty years ago was scarcely in existence should now be able to launch the largest timber-built vessel which has ever been launched on the Clyde. This, no doubt, is chiefly due to the public-spirited conduct of the Earl of Eglinton whose exertions for the good of the town have been unremitting and of the most liberal description. Associated with him have been a number of gentlemen, amongst the foremost of whom we may name Messrs. Barr and Shearer, who by their enterprise and skill as shipbuilders have aided in rendering Ardrossan famous as a shipbuilding and shipping port.

The above is from the publication "Ardrossan Shipyards - Struggle for survival 1825 - 1983
by Catriona Levy and Ardrossan Local History Workshop

See : https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_414000_smxx.pdf
The CONTEST, incidentally, with a crew of 26 on board, set sail for Liverpool from Bombay on the 21st February 1874, and was never heard of again.
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GLASGOW HERALD
19 OCTOBER 1881

ARDROSSAN VESSEL DISABLED

The schooner HEATHER BELL, 99 tons, Kerr, master, from Ardrossan to Bayonne, encountered a very heavy gale. The vessel was thrown on her beam-ends, and split headsails. Casks and other moveable thing about the deck were washed away.

The vessel bore up for Lamlash Bay, and arrived yesterday at 7 p.m.
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GLASGOW HERALD
19 OCTOBER 1889

DEATH

WRIGHT: At 51 Eglinton Street, Ardrossan, on the 18th instant, Jeanie, eldest daughter of the late Peter Wright, Renfrew.
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GLASGOW HERALD
20 OCTOBER 1877

DEATH

At Ardrossan, on the 18th instant, John Campbell, formerly of Glasgow, in the 79th year of his age.
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GLASGOW HERALD
20 OCTOBER 1879

TRADE REPORT

The following are the shipments of pig iron at Ardrossan Harbour for the past week: -

Coastwise – 4484 tons.
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GLASGOW HERALD
21 OCTOBER 1863

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS

At Ardrossan, for Shanghai, direct, the beautiful new clipper barque LOO CHOO, 360 tons register – Warden, commander, now building by Messrs Barr & Shearer, will shortly be launched, and, having the greater portion of her cargo engaged, will be despatched about 5th November.

For terms of freight, etc., apply to Allan C. Gow & Company, 87 Union Street, Glasgow
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GLASGOW HERALD
21 OCTOBER 1865

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Stranraer, October 17 – By the deposition of the master of the HEIDEE, of Preston, reported on the 16th as having been in collision, it appears that at 8 p.m. on the 14th, when about six miles south of Corsewall Light, close-hauled, wind N-W, on her voyage to Ardrossan, in ballast, he saw a vessel’s green light about a mile to the leeward; that the strange vessel, with the wind free, altered her course, and ran right on board the HEIDEE, striking her midships, carrying away forerigging, channel-plates fore and aft, cutting down two planks, and breaking the mainmast in three places; and that he jumped on board the ship, and was told by the master and pilot that her name was M.B., an Austrian vessel, loaded, bound out of Troon.

On obtaining a light and examining his vessel, and finding that she was not making water his crew returned on board, and worked to clear the vessels; and that during this time another vessel hove to alongside, which proved to the DUKE OF ATHOL, of Belfast, Mooney, who sent two of his crew on board to assist to clear the wreck.

As soon as the vessels were disengaged the Austrian ship squared yards and left, although the master had promised to stay by the HEIDEE.

The DUKE OF ATHOL then took her in tow, and brought her into Cairnryan.

The HEIDEE has been surveyed, and found very much damaged, and is to be towed to Ardrossan for repairs.
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GLASGOW HERALD
21 OCTOBER 1865

VESSEL SPOKEN

MEDEA OF LOUE, Austrian barque, from Ardrossan for Trieste, 15th October, in latitude 49N, longitude 8W.
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GLASGOW HERALD
21 OCTOBER 1867

DEATH

At Ardrossan, on the 13th instant, Captain HARVEY CANN, of the barque JOSEPHINE, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
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GLASGOW HERALD
22 OCTOBER 1866

SHIPPING CASUALTY

New York, October 9 – The ship EUROPA, from Ardrossan to Quebec, went ashore at St. Paul’s on the 24th of September.
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GLASGOW HERALD
22 OCTOBER 1868

VESSEL SPOKEN

WINFIELD, from Ardrossan to New York, September 20, in latitude 50N, longitude 34W.
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