Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 OCTOBER 1923

FATAL ACCIDENT

During the operation of bunkering a steamer at Ardrossan harbour yesterday, an accident occurred in connection with a capstan wire by which the railway waggons are pulled from the loading crane.

Mr Robert Todd, harbour foreman, who was passing at the time, was caught by the flying wire and chain, and sustained severe injuries.

He was at once removed to Kilmarnock Infirmary but died there shortly after admission.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 OCTOBER 1926

RUGBY
ARDROSSAN ACADEMICALS 4-0 BEARSDEN

ARDROSSAN TEAM:-

R. McGillivray, E. Davies, J. Martin, F. G. Moore, A. K. Bird, W. D. Kinnear, A. McVicar, J. Lambert, J. McNaught, M. Bruce, A. R. Bird, A. C. Shedden, D. Wyllie, G. Clifford, and J. Lambert.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 OCTOBER 1923

FATAL ACCIDENT

During the operation of bunkering a steamer at Ardrossan harbour yesterday, an accident occurred in connection with a capstan wire by which the railway waggons are pulled from the loading crane.

Mr Robert Todd, harbour foreman, who was passing at the time, was caught by the flying wire and chain, and sustained severe injuries.

He was at once removed to Kilmarnock Infirmary but died there shortly after admission.

GLASGOW HERALD
19 OCTOBER 1923

INTIMATION OF DEATH

TODD: Suddenly at Kilmarnock Infirmary, the result of an accident, ROBERT TODD, beloved husband of Grace Proud. Funeral at 2 p.m. on Friday, 19th, from 1 Princes Street.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 OCTOBER 1929

A NEW BARON LINER

There was launched yesterday by Ardrossan Dockyard Limited, Ardrossan, the single deck cargo steamer BARON DECHMONT, 350 feet in length between perpendiculars, 50 feet in moulded breadth, 25 feet 9 inches in moulded depth, and of 3650 tons gross, which they have built for Messrs H. Hogarth & Sons Limited, Glasgow.

Machinery will be provided by Messrs John G. Kincaid & Company Limited, Greenock.

[Further details of this vessel are contained in the following link:-

https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?y ... N+DECHMONT

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LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN
21 OCTOBER 1899

The steel screw steamer HUMBER – 130 feet in length and 22 feet in depth – built by Ardrossan Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company Limited for E. P. Hutchinson, Hull, was launched on the above date.

[Further details of this vessel, including a photograph, are contained in the following link:-

https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?y ... l=HUMBER#v

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LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN
21 OCTOBER 1941

The steel screw steamer KINTYRE – 164 feet in length, 27 feet in breadth, and 10 feet in depth – built by Ardrossan Dockyard Limited for the Admiralty (Royal Navy), was launched on the above date.

[Further details of this vessel are contained in the following link:-

https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?y ... el=KINTYRE

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 OCTOBER 1903

GLASGOW HIGH COURT
BEFORE LORD KINCAIRNEY
THE ST ENOCH STATION DISASTER
ENGINE DRIVER ACQUITTED

Henry Northcott, residing at 2 Paisley Street, Ardrossan, the driver of the train which collided with the buffers of one of the platforms in St Enoch Station on the 27th July last, resulting in the death of 16 persons and the injury of 22 others, was put on trial on a charge of culpable homicide, and was found not guilty.

The trial lasted nearly six hours, and the verdict of the jury was unanimous.

The accused as he left the dock was loudly cheered by the occupants of the gallery.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 JUNE 1906

A DEEP SEA TRAWLER

The Ardrossan Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company, Ardrossan, launched on Tuesday the steel screw trawler BROOKFIELD, which they have built for the Deep Sea Trawlers (Limited), Fleetwood.

The vessel is 130 feet in length, 22 feet 6 inches in breadth, and 12 feet 10 inches in depth.

She has been constructed on the most up-to-date lines, and will be equipped with all the latest appliances for deep sea trawling off the coast of Iceland, as well as the Bay of Biscay.

Messrs Renfrew Brothers & Company, Irvine, will supply triple expansion engines of 460 i.h.p. having cylinders 13½ inches, 21 inches and 35 inches in diameter respectively by 24 inch stroke, working at pressure of 180 lbs and designed to give a speed of 10½ knots.

The naming ceremony was performed by Mrs. Liver, wife of one of the directors of the owner’s company.

The vessel has been superintended during construction by Mr. A. T. Liver, assisted by Mr. Dunlop, of Messrs John Reid & Company, Glasgow.

[Further details of this vessel are contained in the following link:-

http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ye ... BROOKFIELD

BROOKFIELD
22 OCTOBER 1910

The vessel BROOKFIELD, in ballast, foundered 5.5 miles SE of Buchan Ness on the above date.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 OCTOBER 1891

LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN

Yesterday afternoon the Ardrossan Shipbuilding Company Limited, launched a handsome steel-built barque, built in excess of the requirements of the highest class at Lloyd’s and registered to carry a dead weight of 12 tons. She was built to the order of Mr Henir Bauer, Rostock.

Her dimensions are:- length between perpendiculars, 195 feet; breadth moulded, 32 feet; depth moulded, 17 feet 6 inches.

On leaving the ways she was gracefully named the “MARTHA BOCKHAHN,” by Mrs Macgill, Ardrossan.

[Further details of this vessel are contained in the following link:-

https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?y ... A+BOCKHAHN

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CASUALTY OF WAR
22 OCTOBER 1917

Killed in action, Private ANDREW TAYLOR, (22), attached to 15th Royal Scots – Theatre of war, France and Flanders – son of Andrew Taylor, Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 OCTOBER 1874

GREAT STORM
ARDROSSAN

While the storm raged, a woman named Mrs McCallum, wife of a ship carpenter, who had gone towards the harbour to view the wreck of the CHUSAN, was caught by a squall and lifted off her feet, her head falling heavily on the wheel of a waggon. She sustained a very severe scalp wound, and was taken home in a cab.

Medical aid was at once procured, and her condition is considered very critical.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 OCTOBER 1874

GREAT STORM
WRECK OF THE CHUSAN AT ARDROSSAN
FIFTEEN LIVES LOST

The crowning disaster resulting from the storm was the wreck of the paddle steamer CHUSAN off Ardrossan early yesterday morning, and the loss of no fewer than fifteen lives.

About six o’clock in the morning the steamer, while trying to make for the harbour, drifted on the Crinan Rock, a perilous projection situated midway between the harbour light and the breakwater and about 400 yards from the pier. She parted amidships, with the melancholy result stated.