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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

Archaeology Notes

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.

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