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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 865676
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/865676
NS24SW 8088 c. 213 427
N55 38.7 W4 50.4
NLO: Horse Island [name: NS 213 427]
Ardrossan [name: NS 230 420].
Ardrossan, 1st Jan. The MORNING STAR, of Dublin, Delargy, went ashore on Horse Island, to the NW of the harbour, at 9.30 a.m., during a gale from SW, and is a total wreck.
Source, LL, No. 17,695, London, Tuesday, January 3 1871.
Ardrossan, 2nd Jan. The crew of the MORNING STAR, Delargy, wrecked on Horse island, yesterday, were saved by the FAIR MAID OF PERTH, lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution: the vessel was bound to this port from Dublin, in ballast.
Source, LL, No. 17,696, London, Wednesday, January 4 1871.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11911).
(No classification specified: cited as in ballast, and date of loss as 1 January 1871). Morning Star: this vessel was wrecked on Horse Island. Capt. Delargy.
Registration: Dublin.
(Location of loss cited as N55 38.75 W4 50.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Ardrossan Harbour (NS24SW 36.00) is centred at NS 22585 422219.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 March 2009.
