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