Unknown: Ballantrae, Firth Of Clyde
Barge (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Ballantrae, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Barge (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Flying Foam; 'on The Rocks Near Ballantrae'; Ballantrae Bay; Outer Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 263648
Site Number NX08SE 8028
NGR NX 08 82
NGR Description NX c. 08 82
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - South Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NX08SE 8028 c. 08 82
N55 6 W5 1
NLO: Ballantrae [name: NX 081 825].
Stranraer, Dec. 16, a mud punt or barge has been washed ashore on the rocks near Ballantrae, and, owing to the rough weather, has broken up. When found it was bottom up, and is supposed to be one that broke adrift from the tug steamer FLYING FOAM on the 10th inst., when towing it from Bowling to Silloth.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,794, London, Saturday December 18 [1880].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5051).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998); she was possibly refloated.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 August 2004.
