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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 863860
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/863860
NS32SW 8044 c. 327 225
N55 28.1 W4 38.9
NLO: St Nicholas Rock [name: NS 327 225]
Ayr [name: NS 335 223].
Location formerly entered as NS c. 328 225 [N55 28.2 W4 38.6].
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.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2004.
