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Doddington: St Nicholas Rock, Ayr Pierhead, Firth Of Clyde
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Doddington: St Nicholas Rock, Ayr Pierhead, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Nicholas Rock; Outer Clyde Estuary; Doddington
Canmore ID 258472
Site Number NS32SW 8044
NGR NS 327 225
NGR Description NS c. 327 225
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/258472
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - South Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS32SW 8044 c. 327 225
N55 28.1 W4 38.9
NLO: St Nicholas Rock [name: NS 327 225]
Ayr [name: NS 335 223].
Location formerly entered as NS c. 328 225 [N55 28.2 W4 38.6].
Ayr, 5th Mar. The DODDINGTON (schr.), of Dumfries, Johnstone, from Glasgow to the Isle of Whithorn, Garliestown and Wigtown, with a general cargo, was totally wrecked on the Nicholas rock [St Nicholas Rock] this morning: master saved by the lifeboat GLASGOW WORKMAN, of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution: the rest of the crew had landed previously. The cargo is washing ashore and being picked up. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11620).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 5 March 1869). Doddington: this vessel stranded on Nicholas Rock [St Nicholas Rock], about 55 yards S of Ayr pierhead. Capt. Johnstone.
Registration: Dumfries. Built 1830. 53grt. Length: 21m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 28.17 W4 39.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2004.
Loss (5 March 1869)
Ayr, 5th Mar. The DODDINGTON (schr.), of Dumfries, Johnstone, from Glasgow to the Isle of Whithorn, Garliestown and Wigtown, with a general cargo, was totally wrecked on the Nicholas rock [St Nicholas Rock] this morning: master saved by the lifeboat GLASGOW WORKMAN, of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution: the rest of the crew had landed previously. The cargo is washing ashore and being picked up. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11620).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 5 March 1869). Doddington: this vessel stranded on Nicholas Rock [St Nicholas Rock], about 55 yards S of Ayr pierhead. Capt. Johnstone.
Registration: Dumfries. Built 1830. 53grt. Length: 21m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 28.17 W4 39.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (10 May 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5333
Name : DODDINGTON
Latitude : 552810
Longitude : 43900
Date Built : 1830
Registration : DUMFRIES
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 53
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 21
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 5
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1869
Comment : Stranded on Nicholas Rock, approx. 55 yds south of Ayr pierhead. Capt. Johnstone
Cargo : GENERAL
