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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 761406
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/761406
NS32SW 8001 3340 2310
N55 28.40 W4 38.1667
NLO: Ayr [name: NS 335 223].
KAFFIR. Had been detained in Ayr by bad weather. Cargo of coal is still visible in the wreck. She is now in two sections. The anchor chain is run out to the reef.
(Source includes sketch plan of location).
Source: Butland & Siedlecki, BSAC Wreck Register 1987.
(Classified as steel motor vessel (puffer): date of loss cited as 23 September 1974). Kaffir: this vessel stranded North of Ayr Harbour.
Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N55 28.40 W4 38.17).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record remains unverified. It falls on the NE side of Ayr harbour (NS32SW 123.00), which is centred at NS 32930 22754.
The location of Monket Pier cannot be established from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2005.
