Secret: Black Rocks, Troon, Firth Of Clyde
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Secret: Black Rocks, Troon, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Black Rock; Outer Clyde Estuary; Secret
Canmore ID 113275
Site Number NS32NW 8002
NGR NS 324 293
NGR Description NS c. 324 293
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - South Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS32NW 8002 c. 324 293
N55 31.7 W4 39.3
NLO: Black Rocks [name: NS 324 293]
Troon [name: NS 310 310].
Formerly entered as NS23SE 8003 and NS23SE 9131 at cited location NS 2918 3227 (N55 23 W4 42.5).
12 February 1896. SECRET, 31 years, of St. Ives. Wood schooner. 78 ton. 4 men. Master F. Thomas. Owner Mrs M. Thomas, St. Ives, Cornwall. Hayle to Glasgow. Dynamite. Wind NW9. Black Rock, Ayrshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1895-96 (1897 [C.8453] LXXVIII.693).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 998).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of dynamite: date of loss cited as 12 February 1896). Secret: this vessel stranded [on the ] Black Rock [Black Rocks] at Troon. The cargo exploded. Capt. Thomas.
Registration: St Ives. Built 1865. 78 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 31.33 W4 39.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 January 2010.
Loss (12 February 1896)
12 February 1896. SECRET, 31 years, of St. Ives. Wood schooner. 78 ton. 4 men. Master F. Thomas. Owner Mrs M. Thomas, St. Ives, Cornwall. Hayle to Glasgow. Dynamite. Wind NW9. Black Rock, Ayrshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1895-96 (1897 [C.8453] LXXVIII.693).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 998).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of dynamite: date of loss cited as 12 February 1896). Secret: this vessel stranded [on the ] Black Rock [Black Rocks] at Troon. The cargo exploded. Capt. Thomas.
Registration: St Ives. Built 1865. 78 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 31.33 W4 39.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (7 January 2010)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 January 2010.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6037
Name : SECRET
Latitude : 553120
Longitude : 43930
Date Built : 1865
Registration : ST IVES
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 78
Loss Day : 12
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1896
Comment : Stranded Black Rock, Troon. Cargo exploded. Capt. Thomas
Cargo : DYNAMITE
