Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 JANUARY 1866

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Barbados, December 19 – The ship PLADDA, Montgomery, from Ardrossan, to this place, with coals, went ashore on the Cobbler’s Reef in the night of 13th December, and has become a total wreck; hull, spars, etc., sold for 1050 dollars.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 JANUARY 1873

MARRIAGE

At 42 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on the 16th instant, by the Rev. Alexander Cross, uncle of the bridegroom, Mr Archibald Currie, engineer, to Mary, only daughter of David Barrie, Esquire, merchant.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 JANUARY 1879

ARDROSSAN GRAIN MARKET

There was a good attendance at market on Thursday – 113 bolls wheat and 8 bolls oats exposed - wheat sold at 19s and 20s per boll, and oats at 17s 6d.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 JANUARY 1885

COURT OF SESSION – THE SALE OF ARDROSSAN HARBOUR – THE GLASGOW & SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY

Authority having been given to the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, under a petition to the Lord Ordinary, for the sale by his Lordship of Ardrossan Harbour, the Glasgow & South-Western Railway Company lodged a minute in which they asked that certain rights and interests which they had acquired under agreements with the Earl and his predecessors should be made binding on the purchasers, and that in the deed of conveyance the clause of disposition of the harbour should not include the railway lines and other subjects declared by the agreements to be the property of the company.

The Lord Ordinary (Kinnear) refused this application on the ground that there was nothing in the Acts of Parliament referred to inferring the right claimed, and that it had only been a matter of agreement between the parties which could not be made a real burden on the petitioner’s property.

The First Division today recalled the Lord Ordinary’s interlocutor, and found that the articles of roup for the sale of the harbour or the disposition to the purchaser should contain a clause in terms of a draft adjusted by the Court. In the clause all the obligations mentioned in the agreement with the Earl were made binding on the purchasers of the harbour, and in the sale all the lines of railway at the harbour were excepted, leaving out of account the branch line leading to the ballast store.

No expenses were awarded to the parties.

The Lord President, in giving the leading opinion, said what the Court had got to do was to protect the legitimate interests of the railway company under the agreement so far as possible in adjusting the terms of conveyance. As to whether the adjusted draft would effect an absolute protection to the railway company against any violation of the provisions of the agreement he could not give the parties any assurance. All the Court could do was to give the best guarantee they could to the party whose interests they were seeking to protect. If the effect of the clause to be inserted in the article of roup was to make the obligations under this agreement conditions of the title on the first and all subsequent purchases, of course that would be a very efficient protection for the railway company; but if the effect was not to make these obligations conditions of the title, then he confessed he did not very well see his way to the absolute protection of these rights. All the Court could do was to give the company the best clause they could, consistent with allowing the petitioner to be free to sell under any terms that would give a perfectly good title to the purchaser.

Lord Shand was desirous of adding the words “under pain of nullity” in the deed of sale, so as to make the obligations to the railway company more binding on the purchaser of the harbour, but his opinions was overruled by the majority of the Court.

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CLYDESHIPS.CO.UK
17 JANUARY 1923

VESSEL LOST

The wooden two-masted schooner MARY, built by Barclay, Robertson & Company, Ardrossan, and launched on 17 February, 1887, sank in the River Humber after colliding with the steel steam trawler STRONSAY.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 JANUARY 1861

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Dundalk, January 15 – The schooner ERIS, Owens, of Drogheda, from Ardrossan, came in over the Bar last night, and when getting under weigh to get to the quay, had to slip an anchor and chain.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 JANUARY 1864

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Campbeltown, January 14 – The GUIDING STAR, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, from Ardrossan, with pig iron, got ashore this morning in Dunaverty Bay, but at tide time was assisted off by a tug, and proceeded for the Clyde.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 JANUAR7 1866

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Ardrossan, January 15 – The HIGHLAND BRIGADE, which drove on the beach here December 30, remains with foremast gone and making a little water, but is expected off on the next springs, after discharging. She belongs to Whitehaven, and had part of cargo of coal on board for Algiers.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 JANUARY 1871

ARDROSSAN COURSING CLUB

Today this club opens its spring meeting at Fenwick, near Kilmarnock, should the weather be favourable. Though the frost has disappeared in the vicinity of Ardrossan, it is feared the ground may still be too hard at Fenwick to permit of the running to take place.

The entry and draw took place yesterday afternoon in the Eglinton Arms Hotel.

It was found that the Kilmarnock Plate Stakes did not fill, only six dogs being entered, and these were ultimately withdrawn.

The Pavilion Cup closed with an entry of 41 dogs, while the Fenwick Purse obtained the requisite number of 16.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 JANUARY 1872

BIRTH

At the Bank of Scotland, Ardrossan, on the 18th instant, Mrs D. I. Mack; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 JANUARY 1874

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Inverness, January 15 – Advices from Scrabster state that the JANE, for wick from Ardrossan (coal), was overtaken by a storm off the west coast of Sutherland, January 12, an, becoming waterlogged and unmanageable had to be abandoned, the crew being rescued by a boat from Lochinver; the vessel was afterwards boarded by some fishermen and brought to a safe anchorage.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 JANUARY 1833

INTREPIDITY

On Friday last, when the EARL OF EGLINTON packet was on her way from Ardrossan to Lamlash, a young woman and a child of three or four years of age were thrown overboard by the boom suddenly traversing the deck; under ordinary management both must have been left to perish in the deep, for the packet had no small load with her, and at the same time was going right before the wind, which blew afresh; the vessel was, however, tacked about with remarkable celerity, and JAMES BLACK, the master, tying a cord round his waist, threw himself into the sea, and swimming towards the helpless sufferers, with much exertion got hold first of the woman and the of the child, just as they were sinking to rise no more, and thus saved them both from a watery grave.

It is but proper to mention that this same James Black, when at Rothesay about four years ago, saw a man on a dark night fall over the quay there, and instantly sprung after him, and with much difficulty and imminent danger saved his life.

Such actions surely ought not to pass unnoticed or without reward.