Kitty And Molly: Ayr Harbour Entrance, Firth Of Clyde
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Kitty And Molly: Ayr Harbour Entrance, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kitty & Molly; 'south Pier... Outside The Wall'; Ayr Bay; Outer Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 218680
Site Number NS32SW 8024
NGR NS 329 227
NGR Description NS c. 329 227
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - South Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS32SW 8024 c. 329 227
N55 28.2 W4 38.6
NLO: Ayr [name: NS 335 223].
See also NS32SW 8023 and NS32SW 8073.
Ayr, 29th Nov. 'The morning the wind came round to N.W. and blew with increased violence until 3 p.m. The QUEEN ADELAIDE, Davis, from Liverpool to Cardiff, was driven on shore outside the north wall, but expected to be got off. The PANMURE, Howat, from Bay Chaleur, in taking the Bar, struck, lost her steerage, and went on shore round the North Pier, and is in a very dangerous state: crew saved. The KITTY & MOLLY, from Clyde to Port Nessock, in entering the harbor struck the South Pier, went outside the wall, and became a total wreck. The master drowned.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6904, London, Tuesday December 3 1833.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6879).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of grain: date of loss cited as 29 November 1833). Kitty & Molly: this vessel was wrecked in Ayr Bay.
Registration: Stranraer. Built 1803. 30 tons burthern. Length: 13m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 27.5 W4 38.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Ayr harbour (NS32SW 123.00) is centred at NS 32930 22754.
Ayr Bay is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. UKHO chart no. 2126 (1975, amended 1992) applies the name to the broad embayment between Irvine [name: NS 325 395] and Heads of Ayr [name: NS 284 188], and places the name around N55 29.4 W4 46.5 [NS 247 253].
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2005.
Loss (29 November 1833)
Ayr, 29th Nov. 'The morning the wind came round to N.W. and blew with increased violence until 3 p.m. The QUEEN ADELAIDE, Davis, from Liverpool to Cardiff, was driven on shore outside the north wall, but expected to be got off. The PANMURE, Howat, from Bay Chaleur, in taking the Bar, struck, lost her steerage, and went on shore round the North Pier, and is in a very dangerous state: crew saved. The KITTY & MOLLY, from Clyde to Port Nessock, in entering the harbor struck the South Pier, went outside the wall, and became a total wreck. The master drowned.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6904, London, Tuesday December 3 1833.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6879).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of grain: date of loss cited as 29 November 1833). Kitty & Molly: this vessel was wrecked in Ayr Bay.
Registration: Stranraer. Built 1803. 30 tons burthern. Length: 13m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 27.50 W4 38.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (7 September 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Ayr Bay is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name presumably applies to the extensive embayment between Heads of Ayr (NS 28 18) and Troon (NS 31 30). Ayr harbour (NS32SW 123.00) is centred at NS 32930 22754.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6487
Name : KITTY & MOLLY
Latitude : 552730
Longitude : 43800
Date Built : 1803
Registration : STRANRAER
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 30
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 13
Beam : 4
Loss Day : 29
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1833
Comment : Wrecked in Ayr Bay.
Cargo : GRAIN