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Splendid: Ayr, Firth Of Clyde

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Splendid: Ayr, Firth Of Clyde

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Outer Clyde Estuary; Splendid

Canmore ID 113344

Site Number NS32SW 8005

NGR NS 329 227

NGR Description NS c. 329 227

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council South Ayrshire
  • Parish Maritime - South Ayrshire
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NS32SW 8005 c. 329 227

N55 28.2 W4 38.6

NLO: Ayr [name: NS 335 223].

Formerly entered as NS22SE 8004 at cited location NS 2888 2439 (N55 29 W4 42).

25 October 1884, SPLENDID, 46 yrs old, Newry registered, wooden schooner, 59 tons, 4 crew, Master D. Byrne, Owner J. A. Hunter, Newry. Departed Newry for Troon in ballast. Wind SW6. Stranded at Ayr.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247)..

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1855).

(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss cited as 25 October 1884). Splendid: this vessel stranded at Ayr. Capt. Byrne.

Registration: Newry. Built 1838. 59 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 28.00 W4 39.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Ayr harbour (NS32SW 123.00) is centred at NS 32930 22754.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 February 2007.

Activities

Loss (25 October 1884)

25 October 1884, SPLENDID, 46 yrs old, Newry registered, wooden schooner, 59 tons, 4 crew, Master D. Byrne, Owner J. A. Hunter, Newry. Departed Newry for Troon in ballast. Wind SW6. Stranded at Ayr.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1855).

(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss cited as 25 October 1884). Splendid: this vessel stranded at Ayr. Capt. Byrne.

Registration: Newry. Built 1838. 59 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 28.00 W4 39.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (2 February 2007)

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Ayr harbour (NS32SW 123.00) is centred at NS 32930 22754.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 February 2007.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 1107

Name : SPLENDID

Latitude : 552800

Longitude : 43900

Date Built : 1838

Registration : NEWRY

Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)

Tonnage : 59

Loss Day : 25

Loss Month : 10

Loss Year : 1884

Comment : Stranded at Ayr. Capt. Byrne

Cargo : BALLAST

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