Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 FEBRUARY 1886

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Fayal, January 30 – The AGNES M LOVITT, Scott, from Ardrossan, which put in here with slight damage, cargo shifted, and men hurt, had her decks caulked, etc., and sailed 30th January for Boston.
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GLASGOW HERALD
12 FEBRUARY 1872

GENERAL SHIPPING ITEM

The brig ECLIPSE, which went ashore near Ardrossan some time ago when on her passage from Dublin to Ardrossan, to load, was towed off on Saturday by the Clyde Shipping Company’s tug FLYING METEOR and taken into the harbour.
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GLASGOW HERALD
12 FEBRUARY 1873

BANKRUPT – SEQUESTRATION

Allan Findlay, ship stores merchant, Winton Buildings, Ardrossan. Creditors to meet within the King’s Arms Hotel, Ayr, 21st February, at one o’clock.
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12 FEBRUARY 1874

SHIPPING CASUALTY

The EGMONT, from Ardrossan, with coals, in coming into Kingstown Harbour struck the West Pier.
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GLASGOW HERALD
12 FEBRUARY 1878

ARDROSSAN COURSING CLUB

The spring meeting of the Ardrossan Coursing Club is unusually late this year. This arises from a difficulty in getting permission to run the Champion Collar on the usual ground rented from the Earl of Glasgow by Mr Houldsworth.

This meeting will accordingly take place tomorrow and Wednesday over the Sanquhar districts where hares are known to be plentiful, and some capital sport may be anticipated.

The entry and draw for the Eglinton Collar was held in the George Hotel, Kilmarnock, yesterday afternoon.
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GLASGOW HERALD
12 FEBRUARY 1879

ARDROSSAN POLICE COMMISSIONERS

On Monday evening the monthly meeting of this body was held in the Town Clerk’s office – Provost Barr presiding.

A new set of rules, drawn up by a committee, as to the management of the Town Hall and the fees for its use, were approved at the meeting.

It was agreed to grant the Volunteers the free use of the hall on payment of cleaning and gas.

It was agreed that a committee meet with Mr Young as to the preservation of the fire-engine hose.

Sergeant Cameron said he had no public house cases to report.

The meeting then resolved itself into the Local Authority, when the Inspector reported that the town was in good order.

The Medical Officer’s quarterly report showed that 16 deaths had occurred within the burgh during the period, being five less than in the corresponding quarter of last year.

The Clerk read an excerpt of minutes of Joint Committee Meeting in regard to the management of the hospital, which showed that they had agreed to recommend that the hospital be managed by the two Local Authorities, the arrangements to be terminable by a year’s notice; but after a long discussion it was agreed to allow the matter to lie over for a month.
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GLASGOW HERALD
12 FEBRUARY 1889

SERIOUS ACCIDENT

An accident of a serious nature, and shrouded meantime in mystery, befell a lad named JAMES GLEN, 18 years of age, son of a labourer in Ardrossan.

The youth was employed at the new pier wall in course of construction at the docks, and feeling cold or tired overnight entered the shed which covers one of the large pumps on Montgomerie Pier. On a raised platform near the driving shaft he lay down and fell asleep.

Some lads about the works, it is said, put a cord round his feet, attaching it to part of the gearing of the pump. When the engineman began pumping, unaware of the presence of the boy, he was startled by cries, and at once stopped the pump.

The youth was caught by the shaft, his feet struck and went through the roof of the shed. His leg was broken, his arms terribly torn, and otherwise injured.

The boy can give no account of the affair. He was attended by Doctors Allan and Brown, and yesterday morning was sent off to Glasgow Infirmary.
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GLASGOW HERALD
13 FEBRUARY 1856

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Ardrossan February 8 – Towed in from Lamlash, the brig PARRSBORO’, Paisley, of Belfast, from Troon for Dublin (coals), loss of jibboom, and damage to cathead, bowsprit, and part of bulwarks and stem sprung. Captain Paisley reports three vessels ashore in Lamlash.
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GLASGOW HERALD
13 FEBRUARY 1857

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Ardrossan, February 4 – The ASTREA, of Bridgewater, which sailed hence for that port on the 3rd instant, has put back, leaky.
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GLASGOW HERALD
13 FEBRUARY 1878

SAD CASE OF SUFFOCATION

About eight o'clock yesterday morning, one of the men employed on the harbour tug, lying in the old harbour, Ardrossan, on going into the forecastle found two men apparently sleeping in front of the stove.

An attempt was made to arouse them, but it was ineffectual, and medical aid having been summoned it was found that both were insensible, and though every effort was made for them one of the men died. The other is believed to be recovering, though in a critical state.

They are strangers to Ardrossan, and it is supposed they had boarded the tug late at night, and gone into the forecastle, where they had lighted the stove and closed the hatch, thus excluding air. Most probably they had laid down in front of the stove where they were found.

The names of the men, who are about 21 years of age, have not been ascertained.

Up till last night the survivor had not recovered sufficiently to be able to give any information as to his name and address or that of his unfortunate companion; but both appear to be seafaring men, and one of them is said to have secured a berth on board a vessel in the harbour.
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GLASGOW HERALD
13 FEBRUARY 1894

THE STORM

Ardrossan:
The gale reached its height here about one o’clock on Monday morning. At that hour the storm raged with a fury without parallel for years.

Back areas were strewn with broken slates, fragments of chimney cans, and other debris.

In Paisley Street the chimney of a dwelling house was blown down, and in Glasgow Street the window of a grocer’s shop was driven in by the force of the gale.

At the harbour the Norwegian barque CHASSEUR, loaded with coal, drifted from her moorings and sustained damage to her port bow before being secured.

No injury to persons has yet been reported.
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GLASOW HERALD
14 FEBRUARY 1845

SHIPPING NEWS - The ISABELLA NAPIER

This fine steamer left Londonderry on Thursday last on her first trip to Ardrossan, which she accomplished in the astonishingly short period of nine hours and a half.
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