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Earl St Vincent: Ardwell Bay, Rhinns Of Galloway, North Channel
Brigantine (19th Century)
Site Name Earl St Vincent: Ardwell Bay, Rhinns Of Galloway, North Channel
Classification Brigantine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) South Ardwell Bay; Irish Sea; Earl St Vincent
Canmore ID 257859
Site Number NX04NE 8010
NGR NX 069 451
NGR Description NX c. 069 451
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/257859
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NX04NE 8010 c. 069 451
N54 45.8 W5 0.1
NLO: Ardwell Bay [name: NX 069 451].
Ardwell, Wigtownshire, 6th Oct., 5.30 p.m., the EARL ST VINCENT, of Liverpool, from Londonderry to Creetown, is ashore in South Ardwell bay, and will probably become a total wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,864, London, Wednesday October 7 1874.
Stranraer, 6th Oct., the EARL ST VINCENT (brgtne.), Irving, from Londonderry to Creetown, in ballast, stranded in Ardwell bay, this morning: crew landed in ship's boat: vessel's keel nearly away, and bottom badly injured: weather stormy.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,865, London, Thursday October 8 1874.
Stranraer, 13th Oct., it is stated that the EARL ST VINCENT, Irving, from Londonderry to Creetown, which stranded in Ardwell bay, 6th Oct., is a total loss. [Record received incomplete].
NMJRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4152).
(Classified as wooden brigantine, in ballast: date of loss cited as 6 October 1874). Earl St Vencent: this vessel stranded on rocks in South Ardwell Bay. Capt. Irving.
Registration: Liverpool.
(Location of loss cited as N54 46.00 W5 0.17).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. South Ardwell Bay is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 May 2004.
Loss (6 October 1874)
Ardwell, Wigtownshire, 6th Oct., 5.30 p.m., the EARL ST VINCENT, of Liverpool, from Londonderry to Creetown, is ashore in South Ardwell bay, and will probably become a total wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,864, London, Wednesday October 7 1874.
Stranraer, 6th Oct., the EARL ST VINCENT (brgtne.), Irving, from Londonderry to Creetown, in ballast, stranded in Ardwell bay, this morning: crew landed in ship's boat: vessel's keel nearly away, and bottom badly injured: weather stormy.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,865, London, Thursday October 8 1874.
Stranraer, 13th Oct., it is stated that the EARL ST VINCENT, Irving, from Londonderry to Creetown, which stranded in Ardwell bay, 6th Oct., is a total loss. [Record received incomplete].
NMJRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4152).
(Classified as wooden brigantine, in ballast: date of loss cited as 6 October 1874). Earl St Vencent: this vessel stranded on rocks in South Ardwell Bay. Capt. Irving.
Registration: Liverpool.
(Location of loss cited as N54 46.00 W5 0.17).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (5 May 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. South Ardwell Bay is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 May 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 8995
Name : EARL ST VINCENT
Latitude : 544600
Longitude : 50010
Registration : LIVERPOOL
Type : BRIGANTINE (WOOD)
Loss Day : 6
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1874
Comment : Stranded on rocks in South Ardwell Bay. Capt. Irving
Cargo : BALLAST
