Annie And Jane: Port Murray, Turnberry Bay, Firth Of Clyde

NS20NW 8018 c. 20 07

N55 19 W4 50

NLO: Turnberry Bay [name: NS 194 602]

Port Murray [name: NS 201 078]

Maidens [name: NS 216 082]

Turnberry [name: NS 203 055]

Turnberry Point [name: NS 195 070]

Maidenhead Bay [name centred NS 211 090].

Formerly entered as NS10NE 8009 at cited location NS c. 19 06 [N55 19 W4 51], as NS20NW 8001 at cited location NS 2010 0620 (N55 19. W4 50), and as NS20NW 8005 at cited location NS c. 21 08 [N55 20 W4 49]. Location also formerly cited as NS 2050 0800 (N55 10.9 W4 49.8).

Possibly on map sheet NS10NE.

ANNIE & JANE, 85 ton, schooner, master Moses Owen, of Beaumaris. Bound from Bangor to Glasgow. Value of vessel ?800. Cargo slates value ?400. Crew 4 all saved. Lost 14 Nov 1877, 8-30am. Near Maidens, 1/2 mile from Turnberry Lighthouse. Crew saw and recognised light. Wind south south east gale, rain. Temperature 9am 44 deg., 9pm 45deg. Barometer 9am 2980, 9pm 2964. Vessel struck by heavy squall, refused to answer her helm and ran ashore about 1/2 mile north north east of Turnberry Lighthouse Station. 'If the weather moderates this vessel may be got off the rocks'.

[Contemporary] source: Geo. Campbell, Assistant Lightkeeper and Chas. Black, Principal Lightkeeper, Turnberry Lighthouse.

14 November 1877, ANNIE AND JANE, 15 yrs old, of Beaumaris, Lloyd's 8 A 1, cont. 75, 3 yrs, last survey 3.75, wooden schooner, 85 tons, 4 crew, Master M. Owen, Owner E. Owen, Bangor, departed Bangor for Glasgow, carrying slates, wind SSE, stranded, 1 mile N. of Turnberry Lighthouse, near Girvan, Ayrshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).

Girvan, 15th Nov., 6.50 p.m., the schooner ANNIE & JANE, of Beaumaris, 85 tons register, with slates, for Glasgow, Owen master, ashore at Maidens, seven miles North of Girvan.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,832, London, Friday November 16 1877.

Ayr, 16th Nov., 7.10 a.m., schooner ANNIE & JANE, of Beaumaris, Owen master, 85 tons slates for Glasgow, on shore on the Maidens, near Turnberry: Lloyd's agent has gone to her assistance.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,833, London, Saturday November 17 1877.

Ayr, 16th Nov., the ANNE & JANE lies on the rocks, is full of water and working considerably: sails &c., landed: cargo may be saved should the weather [Report received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2832).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of slates: date of loss cited as 14 November 1877). Annie & Jane: this vessel stranded 1 mile North of Turnberry Light[house]. Capt. Owen.

Registration: Beaumaris. Built 1862. 85 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 20.25 W4 49.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. A location in the area of Port Murray or (the) Maidens may be suggested for the stranding of this vessel.

Turnberry (Point) Lighthouse (NS10NE 4) is at NS 19629 07210.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 May 2004.