Archaeology Notes

Event ID 763004

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/763004

NS23NE 8007 unlocated

NLO: Irvine [name: NS 325 395]

Saltcoats [name: NS 245 413]

Stevenston [name: NS 266 420]

Irvine Bay [name: NS 295 378].

See also NS24SW 8030.

Possibly on map sheet NS33NW.

Location formerly entered as NS 2940 3783 (N55 56.25 W 4 42.5).

The TRELAWNEY, Reid, from Greenock to Jamaica, was totally lost on Friday morning between Saltcoats and Irvin [Irvine]. Part of cargo saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5356, London, Friday January 29 1819.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6010).

(Classified as wooden [full-rigged] ship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 22 January 1819). Trelawney: this vessel stranded on the beach between Irvine and Stevenston. Capt. Reid.

Registration: Greenock. Built 1809. 455 tons burthern. Length 35m. Beam 9m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 37.5 W4 45.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 July 2002.