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Mary: Blackwaterfoot, Arran, Firth Of Clyde

Dandy (19th Century)

Site Name Mary: Blackwaterfoot, Arran, Firth Of Clyde

Classification Dandy (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Drumadoon Bay; Outer Clyde Estuary; Kilbrannan Sound; Mary

Canmore ID 220219

Site Number NR82NE 8003

NGR NR 895 282

NGR Description NR c. 895 282

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council North Ayrshire
  • Parish Maritime - North Ayrshire
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NR82NE 8003 c. 895 282

N55 30.1 W5 20

NLO: Blackwaterfoot [name: NR 895 282]

Drumadoon Bay [name centred NR 888 279]

Kilbrannan Sound [name centred NR 83 40].

3 March 1897, MARY, 33 years, of Newry. Wood dandy. 24 ton, 3 men. Master and owner W. McIntosh, Carradale, Argyll. Greenock to Blackwaterfoot, Arran. Coal. Wind SW9. Blackwaterfoot, Arran.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and arbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 922).

(Classified as wooden dandy, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 3 March 1897). Mary: this vessel stranded at Blackwaterfoot. Capt. McIntosh.

Registration: Newry [NI]. Built 1864. 137 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 30.00 W5 20.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2002.

NR 895 282 Site identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.

M Cressey and S Badger 2005.

Activities

Loss (3 March 1897)

3 March 1897, MARY, 33 years, of Newry. Wood dandy. 24 ton, 3 men. Master and owner W. McIntosh, Carradale, Argyll. Greenock to Blackwaterfoot, Arran. Coal. Wind SW9. Blackwaterfoot, Arran.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and arbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 922).

(Classified as wooden dandy, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 3 March 1897). Mary: this vessel stranded at Blackwaterfoot. Capt. McIntosh.

Registration: Newry [NI]. Built 1864. 137 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 30.00 W5 20.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (21 August 2002)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2002.

External Reference (2005)

NR 895 282 Site identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.

M Cressey and S Badger 2005.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 6315

Name : MARY

Latitude : 553000

Longitude : 52000

Date Built : 1864

Registration : NEWRY

Type : DANDY (WOOD)

Tonnage : 137

Loss Day : 3

Loss Month : 3

Loss Year : 1897

Comment : Stranded Blackwaterfoot. Capt. McIntosh

Cargo : COAL

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