Archaeology Notes

Event ID 872189

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS23NE 8016 c. 298 383

N55 36.5 W4 42.1

NLO: Irvine [name: NS 325 395]

Irvine Bay [name: NS 295 378].

Possibly on map sheet NS33NW.

(Classified as sand dredger: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 10 August 1935). Slaney: this vessel stranded 500 yards North of Irvine. All gone, and broken up at Troon.

Registration: British. Built 1896. 264grt.

(Location of loss cited as N55 36.70 W4 42.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

A location at NS c. 298 383 (on the seaward or W side of the Ardeer spit) may be tentatively suggested for this stranding.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 April 2010.