Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JULY 1915

WAR WOUNDED

Mrs Hastings, 9 Harbour Place, Ardrossan, has received official intimation from Major A. F. Austin, that her son, Private John Hastings, of the 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers, has been wounded in action in France.

[Hughie]

The Londonderry Standard
July 3, 1846

Notice - Great Cattle Sale Ardrossan
IN consequence of the great Cattle Fair at Ardrossan being on TUESDAY, 7th instant, the ISABELLA NAPIER will Sail from the Wharf on MONDAY next, 6th JULY, at 6 o'clock, P.M., so as to accommodate Shippers, and persons desirous to attend the Tryst. From the great variety of superior breeds of Cattle, Sheep, &e, which will be exhibited there, it will be found well worthy the attention of lauded Proprietors, Dealers, Farmers, &c. The great Fair of Glasgow will also be held next week.

Ardrossan Wharf, 2 July, 1846.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 JULY 1912

HOLIDAY RESORT – ARDROSSAN

The large number of people who arrived in the town on Monday are able to enjoy themselves out of doors. There has been an appreciable increase in the steamboat trade this week, and on Saturday all the steamers for Arran were filled. Boating and bathing are popular pastimes with the visitors. The golf course attracts a large number of patrons, and the new picture palace and variety theatre is doing good business in the evening.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 JULY 1919

SCOTLAND AND THE PEACE HOLIDAY

Ardrossan Town Council has protested against the fixing of July 19 for peace celebrations as being inconvenient for coast resorts.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 JULY 1919

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE – ANOTHER SHIPYARD DEAL

I was told today in a well-informed quarter that another deal affecting the Clyde shipbuilding industry had just been carried through.

The Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, Howdon-on-Tyne, which owns and controls the Fairfield Company, Govan, and Messrs Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, has now, it is said, acquired the Ardrossan Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 JULY 1919

ARDROSSAN SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK COMPANY

With reference to the statement made yesterday in our London Correspondence that the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company. Howdon-on-Tyne, had acquired the Ardrossan Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, we understand that the announcement is erroneous.

Mr Hector M. Macneal, chairman, of the Ardrossan Company, informs us that there is no foundation for this report.

[Hughie]

Ayrshire Post
July 6, 1883

Narrow Escape From Drowning
On Monday night a boy named Hugh Gray, about five years of age, while amusing himself with a fishing line at the quay wall, was pushed over by another boy. The tide at the time was nearly full, and the little fellow was in imminent danger. Mr Wm. Boyd, merchant, Harbour, happened to see the crowd collected, and at once proceeded to the spot. Divesting himself of coat and boots he jumped into the water, and got hold of the boy, who was pulled up by means of a line. Though the boy was ten minutes in the water he seemed none the worse of his dip, and was able to walk home. It is worthy of note that this is the fifth life Mr Boyd has saved since he came to Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 JULY 1915

DEATH – McTAGGART

Agnes McTaggart, born in Ardrossan, Scotland, beloved wife of Alexander Livingstone, evangelist, late of Glasgow, passed away June 19, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 JULY 1917

DEATH – WYLLIE

At a nursing home, Glasgow, on 5th July, 1917, David Wyllie, beloved husband of Isabella Templeton, and eldest son of David Wyllie, 1 Kilmeny Terrace, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 JULY 1919

ARDROSSAN SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK COMPANY

With reference to the announcement made on Friday in our London Correspondence that the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, Howdon-on-Tyne, had acquired the Ardrossan Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, we are informed by Mr E. A. Quack, managing director of the Ardrossan Company, that the statement is “absolutely incorrect.”

We regret the publication of the erroneous statement in our column.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 JULY 1852

DROWNING

On Wednesday last, while a number of young lads were bathing at Ardrossan, one of them got into a hole and sank.

The alarm was immediately given, when Mr Moffat rushed to the spot, and dived, but the poor lad held so firmly to the rock in his dying agonies that the generous volunteer found it impossible to lift him until a boat was procured, and then life was quite extinct.

We have not learned the name of the unfortunate youth, but we are informed that he was a letter-press printer.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 JUNE 1852

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT OFF ARDROSSAN

From intelligence received in Glasgow yesterday, there is too much reason to fear that an accident of a very sad character has taken place off Ardrossan.

It appears, according to our information, that on Wednesday morning, between seven and eight o’clock, three gentlemen, viz., Mr D. A. Kennedy, the representative in Glasgow of the firm Messrs William Bird & Company, iron merchants, London; Mr P. D. Moffat, shipping agent, Ardrossan, and a young man, the mate of the brig SISTERS of Dumfries (whose name we have not yet heard), left the harbour for the purpose of enjoying a pleasure sail.

Their craft was a small undecked or open boat carrying a sail, and heavily ballasted with iron, the property of Mr Moffat, and with which he often boarded vessels off the coast in the way of his business.

Shortly after they left a storm of an unusually violent character for the season of the year arose, and the friends of the party became exceedingly uneasy, especially as the day wore on without their return or any tidings regarding them. It was known too that the young men intended only to take a short sail before breakfast, and that Mr Kennedy was to proceed by train to Glasgow in the course of the forenoon.

The Arran steamer arrived at Ardrossan about five o’clock reporting wild gusts of wind and the heavy sea which was flowing outside of the Horse Island; but still the hope remained that the boat and her crew might have found refuge in some of the neighbouring bays.

Mr Moffat’s brother immediately set out in the steamer in search, during which they visited Port Crawford, the lighthouse and bays in Cumbrae, and the adjacent bays in Bute and Arran, but unhappily without hearing any news of the missing party.

In one of the bays in Bute a wherry was found, which had encountered great peril in the gale, and only reached this place of safety with much difficulty.

Wednesday night and yesterday morning passed away without any tidings, and the distressing conclusion could no longer be avoided that the little boat had been overwhelmed by the storm, and that all on board have perished. Indeed, she was so open and so heavily ballasted that in the event of her shipping a sea she must have gone down instantly.

As an outward board brig was seen making her way to sea during the morning and passed not far from Ardrossan, a lingering hope may still exist that, seeing the peril of Mr Moffat and his companions, the captain may have picked them up, or that they may still be heard of in life from some part of the coast.

We fervently trust it may be so, but fear the worst.

Messrs Moffat and Kennedy were in the prime of life and full of promise.

The SISTERS, to which the mate belonged was taking in a cargo of iron at Ardrossan for the United States.

GLASGOW HERALD
9 JULY 1852

THE LATE ACCIDENT AT ARDROSSAN

We understand that while a pleasure party was out fishing on Tuesday last, they observed a body floating in the sea between the two Cumbraes.

They immediately conveyed the body to Millport, where it was identified as that of Mr Moffat, who recently perished off Ardrossan.

The body was removed by Mr Moffat’s sorrowing relatives.