Archaeology Notes

Event ID 767146

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NW86SW 8002 unlocated

NLO: Turnberry [name: NS 203 055]

Turnberry Point [name: NS 195 070]

Maidens [name: NS 216 082]

Girvan [name: NX 182 982]

Corsewall Point [name: NW 980 728].

Formerly entered as NX19NE 8004 at cited location NX 1800 9800 (N55 14.55 W4 51.78), and as Unlocated.

Possibly within Maritime - South Ayrshire.

FOX, 40 ton, lugger, master Alex McMutrie, of Irvine. Bound from Carron Loch(?) to Irvine. Cargo lime. All crew saved. Lost 1 Oct 1894, 8.30pm. Girvan, 6 miles from Turnberry Lighthouse. Crew saw and recognised light. Wind south east light airs, haze. Cause of wreck, lime taking fire, ship put on sands. Total wreck.

[Contemporary] source: Lightkeeper, Turnberry Lighthouse.

(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of limeshell: date of loss cited as 1 October 1894). Fox: this vessel burnt to the waterline between Maidens Rock and Corsewall Point. [Capt.] McMurtrie.

Registration: Irvine. Built 1866. 23grt. Length: 14m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 55.0 W5 25.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. Corsewall Lighthouse (NW97SE 15) is at NW 98075 72614 and Turnberry (Point) Lighthouse (NS10NE 4) at NS 19629 07210.

The location of Maidens Rock cannot be ascertained from the available map evidence. It is possibly to be equated with Maidenhead Rocks [name centred NS 211 084), on the N side of the entrance to Maidens harbour ( ).

The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified. That cited in the primary account is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 December 2001.