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.