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Twin Sisters: Ayr Harbour Entrance, Firth Of Clyde

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Twin Sisters: Ayr Harbour Entrance, Firth Of Clyde

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Twin Sister; 'near The Entrance To Ayr Harbour'; 'on The Scaur Bank'; 'on North Scaur Bank, Behind [the] North Jetty'; Outer Clyde Estuary

Canmore ID 218945

Site Number NS32SW 8031

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 8031 c. 329 227

N55 28.2 W4 38.6

NLO: Ayr [name: NS 335 223].

23 January 1884, TWIN SISTER, 29 yrs old, of Belfast, wooden schooner, 193 tons, 6 crew, Master M. McKay, Owner J. McCully, Belfast, departed Belfast for Troon, in ballast, wind W10, stranded, total loss, near the entrance to Ayr Harbour.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).

TWIN SISTERS. Ayr, Jan. 23, 9 7 p.m. Three-mast schooner TWIN SISTERS, of and from Belfast for Ayr, ashore on North Scaur Bank, behind North jetty: topmasts over sides, sails blown away: will suffer small damage. Blowing hurricane.

Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,757, London, Thursday, January 24 1884.

ELIZABETH. Ayr, Jan. 27. The schooner ELIZABETH, and brigantine, WARWICK, both of and for Belfast, loaded with coals, sunk last night during the hurricane. The schooners ELIZABETH MCCLURE and JANE were lying alongside the WARWICK: the former, which was loaded, got on to the quay in a damaged state this afternoon: the JANE still remains lying across the harbour. The schooner TWIN SISTERS, previously reported ashore on the Scaur bank, drove up last night, and fouled one of the groynes outside the dock, and is now a wreck. Goods in the coasting sheds are slightly damaged by sea water.

Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,762, London, Wednesday, January 30 1884.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3462).

(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss cited as 23 January 1884). Twin Sisters: this vessel stranded at the entrance to Ayr harbour. Capt. Mackay.

Registration: Belfast. Built 1855. 193 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 28.25 W4 38.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Ayr harbour (NS32SW 123.00) is centred at NS 32930 22754, and the entrance is at around NS 329 227. The location of the (North) Scaur Bank cannot be ascertained from the available map evidence.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2005.

Activities

Loss (23 January 1884)

23 January 1884, TWIN SISTER, 29 yrs old, of Belfast, wooden schooner, 193 tons, 6 crew, Master M. McKay, Owner J. McCully, Belfast, departed Belfast for Troon, in ballast, wind W10, stranded, total loss, near the entrance to Ayr Harbour.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).

TWIN SISTERS. Ayr, Jan. 23, 9 7 p.m. Three-mast schooner TWIN SISTERS, of and from Belfast for Ayr, ashore on North Scaur Bank, behind North jetty: topmasts over sides, sails blown away: will suffer small damage. Blowing hurricane.

Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,757, London, Thursday, January 24 1884.

ELIZABETH. Ayr, Jan. 27. The schooner ELIZABETH, and brigantine, WARWICK, both of and for Belfast, loaded with coals, sunk last night during the hurricane. The schooners ELIZABETH MCCLURE and JANE were lying alongside the WARWICK: the former, which was loaded, got on to the quay in a damaged state this afternoon: the JANE still remains lying across the harbour. The schooner TWIN SISTERS, previously reported ashore on the Scaur bank, drove up last night, and fouled one of the groynes outside the dock, and is now a wreck. Goods in the coasting sheds are slightly damaged by sea water.

Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,762, London, Wednesday, January 30 1884.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3462).

(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss cited as 23 January 1884). Twin Sisters: this vessel stranded at the entrance to Ayr harbour. Capt. Mackay.

Registration: Belfast. Built 1855. 193 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 28.25 W4 38.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (7 September 2005)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Ayr harbour (NS32SW 123.00) is centred at NS 32930 22754, and the entrance is at around NS 329 227. The location of the (North) Scaur Bank cannot be ascertained from the available map evidence.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2005.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 3412

Name : TWIN SISTERS

Latitude : 552815

Longitude : 43830

Date Built : 1855

Registration : BELFAST

Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)

Tonnage : 193

Loss Day : 23

Loss Month : 1

Loss Year : 1884

Comment : Stranded at the entrance to Ayr Harbour. Capt. Mackay

Cargo : BALLAST

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