Azalea : Advert for Ardrossan to Portrush sailings September 1902

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" dated Friday 5th September 1902

Advert for "Azalea" sailings Ardrossan to Portrush September 1902

Duke Line : Advert for Glasgow and Greenock to Dublin service, September 1902

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" dated Friday 5th September 1902

Advert for Duke Line steamers, plying between Glasgow and Greenock to Dublin,

SS Clan Cameron,

Lascar crew on strike, crew caused disturbance

Built:1882
Alexander Stephen & Sons Glasgow.
Passenger Cargo Vessel

Lascar crew on strike, crew causing disturbance, police called?Sept

Cousins Arbib

US sailor fell over board into dock.

Launched: 13/11/1882
First owner E. & E. Arbib, London

Nationality: British
Purpose: Transport
Type: cargo
Builder: Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough
Engine by: Richardson T. & Sons, Hartlepool

Propulsion: steamer
Date built: 1882
status: unknown

Details
weight (tons): 2163 grt
dimensions: 91,5 x 10,7 x -- m
engine: 2 Cyl. Compound engine by T. Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool, England.
Power:
Speed:
Yard no.: 209
IMO no.: 87042

History:
1893 E. Arbib & Co., London
1907 J. M. Henderson, London
1909 LOUISE, S.A. pour l'Exploitation du s.s. Louise, Antwerp

Fate:1909, June 20th, sank when 28 miles off Ventimiglia, Italy. On passage Rotterdam for Genoa with old iron.

Correspondence relating to damage to Buoy No. 3 by Brocklebanks cargo ship MAHRATTA in 1903

Tug NEPTUNE assists Brocklebanks cargo ship MAHRATTA from Greenock to Tail of the Bank

Tug ADMIRAL assists Brocklebanks cargo ship MAHRATTA from Greenock to Tail of the Bank

Coastguard 1903 Thomas McGuire

1903 Apr 24th
Mr Thomas McGuire coastguard man, Ardrossan, has received ?25 through the
Board of Trade, for the salving of the steamer ?Rachael?, which went ashore near Ardrossan Harbour, in a dense fog.

Train Crash 1903 St Enoch Station

1903 July 31st
On Monday morning a train from Ardrossan carrying 5oo passengers from Isle of Man steamer Tynwald, on arriving at St Enoch Station Glasgow, crashed into the buffers with considerable force, 15 people were killed and many injured.

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1905 Advert by Caledonian Railway for their services to Ardrossan, Wemyss Bay and Gourock Piers

Contributed by Hugh MacDonald  (Glasgow)

Clyde puffer DRUID founders in Belfast Lough off Islandmagee

Nitrate of Soda for ICI

1905 Dec
The three masted ship ?ARMADALE? arrived on Wednesday to discharge 3000/4000 tons of Nitrate of Soda for Nobel explosives Stevenston. This is the largest Nitrate of Soda cargo landed at Ardrossan on one vessel.

Note:Nitrate Shipments

The northern Chilean desert was an unparallel natural source of sodium nitrate, which was used for fertilizer and the manufacture of explosives.
The nitrate industry produced great wealth for the South American nation and helped transform the agricultural landscape of North America and Europe.
In 1929, the nitrate boom came to a halt with the stock market crash and the US Great Depression. Synthetic fertilizers were discovered soon after and the industry never recovered.

(Eric ArdrossanShips)

Steamer MANISTIQUE sank and her 31 crew are missing after collision in Lake Superior near Duluth

   The steamer MANISTIQUE of the Manistique, Marquette and Northern Railroad Company was in collision with the steamer IRELAND near Duluth, Minnesota, USA.

   MANISTIQUE sank and her crew of thirty-one are missing.

Steamer IRELAND collides with MANISTIQUE on Lake Superior near Duluth

   The steamer MANISTIQUE of the Manistique, Marquette and Northern Railroad Company was in collision with the steamer IRELAND near Duluth, Minnesota, USA.

   MANISTIQUE sank and her crew of thirty-one are missing.