Jean Gordon: Ayr Harbour Entrance, Firth Of Clyde
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Jean Gordon: Ayr Harbour Entrance, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ayr, North Breakwater; Ayr Bay; Outer Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 218759
Site Number NS32SW 8029
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 8029 c. 329 227
N55 28.2 W4 38.6
NLO: Ayr [name: NS 335 223].
Stranraer, 3rd Jan. 'The JEAN GORDON, Simpson, from Cork to Ayr, struck on the North Breakwater this morning, and went to pieces: four of the crew drowned.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 8371, London, Wednesday January 6 1841.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7589).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. 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].
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 September 2004.