Archaeology Notes

Event ID 865676

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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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.