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Trelawney: Irvine Bay, Firth Of Clyde

Ship (19th Century)

Site Name Trelawney: Irvine Bay, Firth Of Clyde

Classification Ship (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'Between Saltcoats And Irvin'; 'between Irvine And Stevenston'; Outer Clyde Estuary; Trelawney

Canmore ID 113278

Site Number NS23NE 8007

NGR NS 269 398

Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/113278

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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

NS23NE 8007 unlocated

NLO: Irvine [name: NS 325 395]

Saltcoats [name: NS 245 413]

Stevenston [name: NS 266 420]

Irvine Bay [name: NS 295 378].

See also NS24SW 8030.

Possibly on map sheet NS33NW.

Location formerly entered as NS 2940 3783 (N55 56.25 W 4 42.5).

The TRELAWNEY, Reid, from Greenock to Jamaica, was totally lost on Friday morning between Saltcoats and Irvin [Irvine]. Part of cargo saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5356, London, Friday January 29 1819.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6010).

(Classified as wooden [full-rigged] ship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 22 January 1819). Trelawney: this vessel stranded on the beach between Irvine and Stevenston. Capt. Reid.

Registration: Greenock. Built 1809. 455 tons burthern. Length 35m. Beam 9m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 37.5 W4 45.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 July 2002.

Activities

Loss (22 January 1819)

The TRELAWNEY, Reid, from Greenock to Jamaica, was totally lost on Friday morning between Saltcoats and Irvin [Irvine]. Part of cargo saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5356, London, Friday January 29 1819.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6010).

(Classified as wooden [full-rigged] ship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 22 January 1819). Trelawney: this vessel stranded on the beach between Irvine and Stevenston. Capt. Reid.

Registration: Greenock. Built 1809. 455 tons burthern. Length 35m. Beam 9m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 37.5 W4 45.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (22 July 2002)

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 July 2002.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 7106

Name : TRELAWNEY

Latitude : 553730

Longitude : 44500

Date Built : 1809

Registration : GREENOCK

Type : SHIP (WOOD)

Tonnage : 455

Tonnage Code : B

Length : 35

Beam : 9

Loss Day : 22

Loss Month : 1

Loss Year : 1819

Comment : Stranded on beach between Irvine and Stevenston. Capt. Reid

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