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Acorn: Kingscross, Arran, Firth Of Clyde
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Acorn: Kingscross, Arran, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kingscross Point; Lamlash Bay; Outer Clyde Estuary; Acorn
Canmore ID 112516
Site Number NS02NE 8006
NGR NS 05 28
NGR Description NS c. 05 28
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/112516
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - North Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS02NE 8006 c. 05 28
N55 30 W5 5
NLO: Kingscross Point [name: NS 056 283]
Lamlash Bay [name centred NS 038 306]
Holy Island [name: NS 06 30].
Formerly entered as NS02NE 9331 at NS 0618 2741 (N55 30.11 W5 4.09), and at cited location NS c. 056 283 [N55 30.6 W5 4.7].
3 February 1889. ACORN. 32 years of Greenock. Wood schooner. 50 ton. 3 men. Master A. Craig. Owner R.S. McMorland, Greenock. Glenarm to Irvine. Lime. Wind N10. Lamlash Bay, Firth of Clyde.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1626).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of lime: date of loss cited as 3 February 1889). Acorn: this vessel stranded and caught fire at Kingscross, Lamlash [Bay]. Capt. Craig.
Registration: Greenock. Built 1857. 55grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 30.67 W5 4.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
NS 056 283 Site identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.
M Cressey and S Badger 2005.
NMRS, MS/4040.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The term 'Kingscross' also applies to a larger, ill-defined, area to the SW of Kingscross Point.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 January 2006.
Loss (3 February 1889)
3 February 1889. ACORN. 32 years of Greenock. Wood schooner. 50 ton. 3 men. Master A. Craig. Owner R.S. McMorland, Greenock. Glenarm to Irvine. Lime. Wind N10. Lamlash Bay, Firth of Clyde.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1626).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of lime: date of loss cited as 3 February 1889). Acorn: this vessel stranded and caught fire at Kingscross, Lamlash [Bay]. Capt. Craig.
Registration: Greenock. Built 1857. 55grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 30.67 W5 4.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (2005)
NS 056 283 Site identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.
M Cressey and S Badger 2005.
NMRS, MS/4040.
Note (5 January 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The term 'Kingscross' also applies to a larger, ill-defined, area to the SW of Kingscross Point.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 January 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4037
Name : ACORN
Latitude : 553040
Longitude : 50430
Date Built : 1857
Registration : GREENOCK
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 55
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 19
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 3
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1889
Comment : Stranded and fire at Kingscross, Lamlash. Capt. Craig
Cargo : LIME
