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Loss
Date 5 March 1869
Event ID 571255
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/571255
Ayr, 5th Mar. The DODDINGTON (schr.), of Dumfries, Johnstone, from Glasgow to the Isle of Whithorn, Garliestown and Wigtown, with a general cargo, was totally wrecked on the Nicholas rock [St Nicholas Rock] this morning: master saved by the lifeboat GLASGOW WORKMAN, of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution: the rest of the crew had landed previously. The cargo is washing ashore and being picked up. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11620).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 5 March 1869). Doddington: this vessel stranded on Nicholas Rock [St Nicholas Rock], about 55 yards S of Ayr pierhead. Capt. Johnstone.
Registration: Dumfries. Built 1830. 53grt. Length: 21m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 28.17 W4 39.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
