Minerva: Horse Island, Firth Of Clyde
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Minerva: Horse Island, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Minorva; Ardrossan; Outer Clyde Estuary; Minorva (Minerva ?)
Canmore ID 218332
Site Number NS24SW 8023
NGR NS 213 427
NGR Description NS c. 213 427
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - North Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS24SW 8023 c. 213 427
N55 38.7 W4 50.4
NLO: Horse Island [name: NS 213 427]
Ardrossan [name: NS 230 420].
See also NS16NW 8028 and NS16NW 8029.
Glasgow, 20th Dec. 'The JENNY, Chapman, from the Clyde to Londonderry, is on shore on the Point of Towart [Toward Point]. The LEVEN CASTLE, McLarty, from Dublin to the Clyde, was stranded on Tuesday between Dunoon and the Holy Loch. The MINERVA, Gibbon, from Dublin to Glasgow, was lost on Tuesday on the Horse Isle, near Ardrossan: one of the crew, a soldier, two women and a child, drowned'. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6164).
(No classification or cargo specified: name cited as Minorva (or possibly Minerva), and date of loss as 17 December 1821). This vessel was wrecked on Horse Island. Capt. Gibbon. Dublin-Glasgow.
(Location of loss cited as N55 38.75 W4 50.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The form of the name of this vessel that is cited in the primary account is preferred.
The date of loss that is cited by Whittaker is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 January 2006.
Loss (17 December 1821)
Glasgow, 20th Dec. 'The JENNY, Chapman, from the Clyde to Londonderry, is on shore on the Point of Towart [Toward Point]. The LEVEN CASTLE, McLarty, from Dublin to the Clyde, was stranded on Tuesday between Dunoon and the Holy Loch. The MINERVA, Gibbon, from Dublin to Glasgow, was lost on Tuesday on the Horse Isle, near Ardrossan: one of the crew, a soldier, two women and a child, drowned'. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6164).
(No classification or cargo specified: name cited as Minorva (or possibly Minerva), and date of loss as 17 December 1821). This vessel was wrecked on Horse Island. Capt. Gibbon. Dublin-Glasgow.
(Location of loss cited as N55 38.75 W4 50.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (5 January 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The form of the name of this vessel that is cited in the primary account is preferred.
The date of loss that is cited by Whittaker is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 January 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6691
Name : MINORVA (MINERVA ?)
Latitude : 553845
Longitude : 45030
Loss Day : 17
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1821
Comment : Wrecked on Horse Island. Capt. Gibbon. Dublin-Glasgow
