Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 MARCH 1918

ARDROSSAN HOUSING QUESTIONS

The housing question in Ardrossan is becoming more acute.

At a meeting of the Town Council letters were read from local trade union committees pointing out that certain householders had been warned out by May owing to a local firm having taken over two other tenements for the housing of their employees, and asking what the Council intended to do.

Some of the householders concerned are railway employees, and the local branch of the National Union of Railwaymen has placed the matter before the general managers of the Glasgow & South-Western Railway and the Caledonian Railway.

It was reported that the Housing Committee of the Council had taken steps in the matter and had communicated with the Local Government Board, who had handed the matter over to the Admiralty.

The Council agreed to wire Sir George Younger, M.P., urging that a clause be inserted in the new Bill to amend the Rent Act limiting a tenant to only one house.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 MARCH 1919

LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN

The British minesweeper BARNSTAPLE was launched yesterday by the Ardrossan Shipbuilding Company.

The vessel is of 800 tons displacement, and will be engined by Messrs Ross & Duncan, Glasgow.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 MARCH 1917

BIRTH - McCONNELL

At 13 Harbour Road, Ardrossan, on the 19th instant, the wife of Private A. C. McConnell, Royal Scots Fusiliers, British Expeditionary Force; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 MARCH 1918

THE MILITARY MEDAL

His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Military Medal for bravery in the field to the undermentioned non-commissioned officer: -

200217 Corporal A. Wright, Royal Scots Fusiliers, (Ardrossan).

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 FEBRUARY 1916

STEAMER ASHORE OFF ARDROSSAN

On Thursday night the Ardrossan lifeboat was summoned by flare signals to the rescue of the steamer ELSISTON, which had gone ashore on the Horse Island in a heavy gale which was blowing.

The ELSISTON is owned by Messrs William S. Millar & Company, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, and was from Havre to land coal at Ardrossan.

The lifeboat got out shortly after nine o’clock, and found the vessel firmly wedged on rocks at the south-west part of the island, and so situated that it was impossible to approach her.

The lifeboat ran to a cove on the northern end of the island, where some of the crew landed. One of the rescue party got into communication with the captain of the ELSISTON, who informed him that the vessel was badly holed, and desired the lifeboat to stand by till morning.

At 8 a.m. on Friday, when the weather had moderated, the lifeboat brought ashore six members of ELSISTON’s crew, and at midday the remainder of the crew of 28 were brought ashore.

This is the third crew the Ardrossan lifeboat has rescued within a month.

GLASGOW HERALD
23 MARCH 1916

STEAMER REFLOATED

The steamer ELSISTON, which went ashore on the Horse Island, near Ardrossan, on February 4, was refloated on Wednesday afternoon by the Ardrossan Salvage Company.

The ELSISTON, is of 2900 registered tonnage, and is owned by Messrs William S. Millar & Company, Glasgow.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 MARCH 1916

EXEMPTION CLAIMS TRIBUNAL

Provost Chrystie presided at a meeting of the Ardrossan Tribunal, at which 18 cases were heard.

A cordite worker applied for exemption on the ground that he was now engaged in a munition factory. At the date of his appeal, he had been suspended. He submitted his badge and certificate from the Ministry of Munitions. The appeal was dismissed.

A bookkeeper and cashier appealed as a conscientious objector, and before going on with the case submitted that as he was a Canadian citizen he was excepted under the terms of the Military Service Act. He had a settlement in Canada. The Tribunal decided to hear his claim as a conscientious objector, and in the end dismissed it.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 MARCH 1918

DEATH - FERRIER

At 67 Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, on 25th March, Sarah Boyd, in her 86th year, widow of Captain Robert Ferrier, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 MARCH 1918

PUBLIC MEETING

At a public meeting in Ardrossan to consider the housing question a resolution was passed pointing out that owing to the purchase of property in the burgh 24 tenants had been warned out and had nowhere to go, and desiring the Town Council, together with the Ardrossan Trade Unions Committee, to point out to the respective Government Departments that in the event of no immediate action being taken most serious consequences might follow.

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 MARCH 1917

BIRTH - MITCHELL

At Garnock, Ardrossan, on 25th instant, the wife of William Mitchell; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 MARCH 1919

SEVERE GALE

Owing to a severe north-west gale yesterday seas were running very heavily all day, the passenger steamer was unable to sail from Ardrossan to Arran. The mail and newspaper services to Arran were accordingly interrupted.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 MARCH 1862

ACTION FOR DAMAGES

On Thursday, before the Sheriff Small Debt Court at Kilmarnock, a young man of the name Rae, driver of the post-gig from Kilmarnock to Ardrossan, sued Charles Bradley, calling himself an American doctor, for £12 of damages of maltreatment of his case.

Bradley, having failed to appear, the Sheriff discerned against him for the full sum, with £8 14s of expenses.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 MARCH 1866

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Scilly, March 26 – Last night the pilot cutter RAPID, of this port, landed here three seamen, viz., J. Bryson, of North Shields; T. Osbourne, of Liverpool; and N. McKinty, of Antrim, late of the brig HARRIET, of Ardrossan; the captain, mate, one man (Simon), and a boy being lost.

The seamen report that the HARRIET sailed from Ardrossan on the 19th instant, for Bordeaux, with coal, and when off the Land’s End, on the night of the 22nd, or morning of the 23rd, she sprung a leak; that she shipped some very heavy seas, which washed away the longboat, tore away the tarpaulins, and burst open the hatches; that the sea at times made a complete breach over the ship, and rushed down the main hatch in large quantities; and on the morning of the 24th, the HARRIET, being in a sinking state, signals of distress were made, and the brig TIBER, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Farrell, from Newcastle, for New York, ran alongside at 10 a.m., when the three seamen succeeded in jumping on board of the TIBER, and the ships separated, leaving the captain, mate, a man, and a boy, on board the HARRIET.

When the ships were some distance apart, it was observed that the HARRIET’s remaining boat had been got out and pulled by the HARRIET, through a heavy sea, but on reaching her nothing could be seen of the boat or the people who had been left on board, and it was supposed that the boat had been swamped alongside and all lost.

The HARRIET went down at 11 a.m., about 30 miles north from Scilly, and on the 25th the three men were transferred to the pilot cutter 10 or 12 miles north-east from Scilly.