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Phoenix: Portencross, Firth Of Clyde
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Phoenix: Portencross, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Portincross; West Kilbride; Outer Clyde Estuary; Phoenix
Canmore ID 262502
Site Number NS14NE 8007
NGR NS 175 490
NGR Description NS c. 175 490
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/262502
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - North Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS14NE 8007 c. 175 490
N55 42 W4 54.3
NLO: Portencross [name: NS 175 490]
West Kilbride [name centred NS 205 480].
Glasgow, 18th Sept., the PHOENIX (smack), Beaton, from Ardrossan to Millport, with coal, went ashore, yesterday, at Portincross [Portencross]: it is supposed that she sprung a leak, and was run ashore to save the vessel and cargo: her mast only is seen at high water.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,228, London, Friday September 20 1872.
Glasgow, 19th Sept., the PHOENIX, from Ardrossan to Millport, which went ashore, 16th Sept., at Portincross [Portencross], has gone to pieces.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,229, London, Saturday September 21 [1872].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3834).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 17 September 1872). Phoenix: this vessel was wrecked at Portencross. Capt. Beaton.
Registration: Greenock. Built 1832. 19 tons burthern. Length 11m. Beam 3m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 42.0 W4 54.33).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 August 2004.
Loss (17 September 1872)
Glasgow, 18th Sept., the PHOENIX (smack), Beaton, from Ardrossan to Millport, with coal, went ashore, yesterday, at Portincross [Portencross]: it is supposed that she sprung a leak, and was run ashore to save the vessel and cargo: her mast only is seen at high water.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,228, London, Friday September 20 1872.
Glasgow, 19th Sept., the PHOENIX, from Ardrossan to Millport, which went ashore, 16th Sept., at Portincross [Portencross], has gone to pieces.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,229, London, Saturday September 21 [1872].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3834).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 17 September 1872). Phoenix: this vessel was wrecked at Portencross. Capt. Beaton.
Registration: Greenock. Built 1832. 19 tons burthern. Length 11m. Beam 3m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 42.0 W4 54.33).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (9 August 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 August 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 9382
Name : PHOENIX
Latitude : 554200
Longitude : 45420
Date Built : 1832
Registration : GREENOCK
Type : SLOOP (WOOD)
Tonnage : 19
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 11
Beam : 3
Loss Day : 17
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1872
Comment : Wrecked at Portencross. Capt. Beaton
Cargo : COAL
