Septimus: St Nicholas Rock, Ayr Pierhead, Firth Of Clyde
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Septimus: St Nicholas Rock, Ayr Pierhead, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Nicholas Rock; Bay Of Ayr; Outer Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 267231
Site Number NS32SW 8057
NGR NS 327 225
NGR Description NS c. 327 225
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 8057 c. 327 225
N55 28.1 W4 38.9
NLO: St Nicholas Rock [name: NS 327 225]
Ayr [name: NS 335 223].
Location formerly entered as NS c. 328 225 [N55 28.2 W4 38.6].
SEPTIMUS, of and from Belfast, for Ayr, stranded, 14th Apl., on Nicholas [St Nicholas] rock, bay of Ayr.
Source: Abstract of Board of Trade Casualty Returns, Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,651, London, Thursday April 19 1877.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4630).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting that she was successfully recovered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 October 2004.