Alternative Names Irvine Bar; Irvine Bay; River Garnock; Outer Clyde Estuary
Site type SLOOP (19TH CENTURY)
Canmore ID 262500
Site Number NS33NW 8027
NGR NS 303 380
Latitude N 55 36.4
Longitude W 4 41.7
Council NORTH AYRSHIRE
Parish MARITIME - NORTH AYRSHIRE
Former Region STRATHCLYDE
Former District MARITIME
Former County MARITIME

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Archaeological Notes

NS33NW 8027 c. 303 380
N55 36.4 W4 41.7

NLO: Irvine [name: NS 325 395]
Irvine Bay [name: NS 295 378].

See also NS33NW 8026.

Glasgow, 13th Sept., in consequence of a freshet in the river yesterday, the following vessels lying in Irvine harbour sustained damage: - CATHARINE THOMSON (sloop), of Ardrossan, with coals, sunk and was a total wreck: SALLY (sloop), of Stranraer, sunk at the mouth of the bar.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,224, London, Monday September 16 [1872].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3833).

Glasgow, 13th Sept., in consequence of a freshet in the river yesterday, the following vessels lying in Irvine harbour sustained damage: - CATHARINE THOMSON (sloop), of Ardrossan, with coals, sunk and was a total wreck: SALLY (sloop), of Stranraer, sunk at the mouth of the bar.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,224, London, Monday September 16 [1872].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11230).

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Irvine Bar is not noted on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the River Garnock enters Irvine Bay at NS 303 380 and the bar may be envisaged as a Southeastwards extension of Ardeer Spit.
The extensive area of Irvine Harbour (NS33NW 40.00) is centred at NS 30668 38222.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 August 2004.

Notes and Activities

12 September 1872

LOSS

Notes Glasgow, 13th Sept., in consequence of a freshet in the river yesterday, the following vessels lying in Irvine harbour sustained damage: - CATHARINE THOMSON (sloop), of Ardrossan, with coals, sunk and was a total wreck: SALLY (sloop), of Stranraer, sunk at the mouth of the bar.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,224, London, Monday September 16 [1872].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3833).

Glasgow, 13th Sept., in consequence of a freshet in the river yesterday, the following vessels lying in Irvine harbour sustained damage: - CATHARINE THOMSON (sloop), of Ardrossan, with coals, sunk and was a total wreck: SALLY (sloop), of Stranraer, sunk at the mouth of the bar.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,224, London, Monday September 16 [1872].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11230).



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9 August 2004

RCAHMS NOTE

Notes The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The extensive area of Irvine Harbour (NS33NW 40.00) is centred at NS 30668 38222.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 August 2004.



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