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Loss
Date 14 November 1877
Event ID 608925
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/608925
ANNIE & JANE, 85 ton, schooner, master Moses Owen, of Beaumaris. Bound from Bangor to Glasgow. Value of vessel ?800. Cargo slates value ?400. Crew 4 all saved. Lost 14 Nov 1877, 8-30am. Near Maidens, 1/2 mile from Turnberry Lighthouse. Crew saw and recognised light. Wind south south east gale, rain. Temperature 9am 44 deg., 9pm 45deg. Barometer 9am 2980, 9pm 2964. Vessel struck by heavy squall, refused to answer her helm and ran ashore about 1/2 mile north north east of Turnberry Lighthouse Station. 'If the weather moderates this vessel may be got off the rocks'.
[Contemporary] source: Geo. Campbell, Assistant Lightkeeper and Chas. Black, Principal Lightkeeper, Turnberry Lighthouse.
14 November 1877, ANNIE AND JANE, 15 yrs old, of Beaumaris, Lloyd's 8 A 1, cont. 75, 3 yrs, last survey 3.75, wooden schooner, 85 tons, 4 crew, Master M. Owen, Owner E. Owen, Bangor, departed Bangor for Glasgow, carrying slates, wind SSE, stranded, 1 mile N. of Turnberry Lighthouse, near Girvan, Ayrshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).
Girvan, 15th Nov., 6.50 p.m., the schooner ANNIE & JANE, of Beaumaris, 85 tons register, with slates, for Glasgow, Owen master, ashore at Maidens, seven miles North of Girvan.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,832, London, Friday November 16 1877.
Ayr, 16th Nov., 7.10 a.m., schooner ANNIE & JANE, of Beaumaris, Owen master, 85 tons slates for Glasgow, on shore on the Maidens, near Turnberry: Lloyd's agent has gone to her assistance.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,833, London, Saturday November 17 1877.
Ayr, 16th Nov., the ANNE & JANE lies on the rocks, is full of water and working considerably: sails &c., landed: cargo may be saved should the weather [Report received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2832).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of slates: date of loss cited as 14 November 1877). Annie & Jane: this vessel stranded 1 mile North of Turnberry Light[house]. Capt. Owen.
Registration: Beaumaris. Built 1862. 85 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 20.25 W4 49.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
