Elder Dempster's cargo ship CANADA CAPE is well on fire and beached in Table Bay, Cape Town

   Elder Dempster & Company Limited of Liverpool advise

that they have received a report from Cape Town,

 South Africa, that their 4,286 gross-ton cargo steamer

 CANADA CAPE is well on fire and has been beached in

Table Bay.   The fire is raging in two forward holds and

the situation is critical. 

  The Ships’ owners Marine Superintendent Captain Matyn

from their Cape Town office is on the scene and

directing operations.

   CANADA CAPE has been on the Canada to South African

service since she was built in 1904 and had left Sydney,

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada on 4^th May for

Cape Town.

   The owners had a message from Lloyds in Cape Town

which told that the fire is gaining in intensity.   The fire

is in numbers 1 and 2 holds and the cargo is destroyed.

   Lighters from Cape Town have come alongside and

cargo from numbers 3 and 4 holds is being discharged

into the lighters.   The fire has gutted the steamer forward

of the engine room.

   A later telegram to the owners said that the fire was

discovered in the ship’s coal bunkers on Monday evening

and, despite the efforts of the Fire Brigade, the flames

spread to other parts of the vessel.   CANADA CAPE has

been blazing all day and reports allege that she will be

a constructive total loss.   

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War Ships HMS "Orion" and HMS "Falmouth" at Ardrossan & Saltcoats

1902 Aug? Battleship ?HMS ORION?, lay off Ardrossan Harbour.
Cruiser ?HMS Falmouth, lay off Saltcoats harbour, both on a courtesy visit to the towns

HMS Battleship ?ORION?
Lead ship of her class, and first Super Dreadnought.
L 581? B 88? D 24?? Steam Turbine?21 knots?
3 torpedo tubes.

Commissioned: January 1912

Press coverage:
War Ships at Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald
June 1912

Few local occurrences have excited so general an interest as did the arrival of warships at Ardrossan & Saltcoats on Friday last.
Some time ago the town councils of both burghs, made a suggestion to the Admiralty, through their respective Town Clerks, that the whole community would appreciate a visit by a representative vessel of the British Navy.

Arrangements were made whereby HMS ORION, the latest Super Dreadnoughts was sent to Ardrossan for the weekend, while HMS FALMOUTH, an armoured cruiser paid a visit to Saltcoats.
Both vessels arrived off the respective towns on Friday afternoon, and from both burghs, a deputation of the town council officials went aboard the vessels.
Extending a formal welcome to the ships companies, and to offer such privileges to officers and men as they had it in their power to give.
From Ardrossan, there went to the HMS ORION, Bailie McKellar, Bailie Flinn and Councillor Harvey, who were cordially received by Captain Arthur W Craig and his staff.
The members of the deputation, after an exchange of courtesies Bailie McKellar, having in eloquent terms expressed the pleasure of the people of Ardrossan,
at having such a vessel come to pay a visit.
The officers must have noticed that Ardrossan has the possibilities, such as are to be found at few towns.
A banquet was held and there after the officers were shown over the Burgh Chambers, all of them wee interested in the ancient stone coffin, which is a conspicuous object in the entrance hall
During their stay the officers and men took full advantage of the privileges extended to them, many of the former golfing, both on the Ardrossan, Saltcoats and on Ardeer courses.
This was followed by an amateur competition at the Crown Picture Palace, Ardrossan

(EA ArdShips.com)

War Ships HMS "Orion" and HMS "Falmouth" at Ardrossan & Saltcoats

1902 Aug? Battleship ?HMS ORION?, lay off Ardrossan Harbour.
Cruiser ?HMS Falmouth, lay off Saltcoats harbour, both on a courtesy visit to the towns

HMS Battleship ?ORION?
Lead ship of her class, and first Super Dreadnought.
L 581? B 88? D 24?? Steam Turbine?21 knots?
3 torpedo tubes.

Commissioned: January 1912

Press coverage:
War Ships at Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald
June 1912

Few local occurrences have excited so general an interest as did the arrival of warships at Ardrossan & Saltcoats on Friday last.
Some time ago the town councils of both burghs, made a suggestion to the Admiralty, through their respective Town Clerks, that the whole community would appreciate a visit by a representative vessel of the British Navy.

Arrangements were made whereby HMS ORION, the latest Super Dreadnoughts was sent to Ardrossan for the weekend, while HMS FALMOUTH, an armoured cruiser paid a visit to Saltcoats.
Both vessels arrived off the respective towns on Friday afternoon, and from both burghs, a deputation of the town council officials went aboard the vessels.
Extending a formal welcome to the ships companies, and to offer such privileges to officers and men as they had it in their power to give.
From Ardrossan, there went to the HMS ORION, Bailie McKellar, Bailie Flinn and Councillor Harvey, who were cordially received by Captain Arthur W Craig and his staff.
The members of the deputation, after an exchange of courtesies Bailie McKellar, having in eloquent terms expressed the pleasure of the people of Ardrossan,
at having such a vessel come to pay a visit.
The officers must have noticed that Ardrossan has the possibilities, such as are to be found at few towns.
A banquet was held and there after the officers were shown over the Burgh Chambers, all of them wee interested in the ancient stone coffin, which is a conspicuous object in the entrance hall
During their stay the officers and men took full advantage of the privileges extended to them, many of the former golfing, both on the Ardrossan, Saltcoats and on Ardeer courses.
This was followed by an amateur competition at the Crown Picture Palace, Ardrossan

(EA ArdShips.com)

MacLay and MacIntyre's VICTORIA leaves Glasgow for France, Spain, Italy and Black Sea

MacLay and MacIntyre's SAXON leaves Glasgow for Bordeaux (France), Spain, Italy and Black Sea Ports

Nord-deutscher Lloyd passenger liner GNEISENAU leaves Southampton for Australia

MacLay and MacIntyre's PEVERIL leaves Glasgow for Bilbao (Spain), Italy and Black Sea Ports

Postcard of "Caledonian Railway to the Coast" probably around 1912

Nord-deutscher Lloyd passenger liner GNEISENAU leaves Genoa for Australia

KAIPARA closes at Glasgow for cargo for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and Dunedin

Nord-deutscher Lloyd passenger liner SCHARNHORST leaves Southampton for Australia

Nord-deutscher Lloyd passenger liner SCHARNHORST leaves Genoa for Australia

Ardrossan Harbour coal-trimmers end their strike

From "The Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald" dated 3rd January 1913

The strike of coal-trimmers at Ardrossan Harbour ended yesterday when the harbour company made a final offer to pay an extra farthing per ton on the overtime rate for coal, and this was accepted by the striker's delegates.
As the result of a special matinee held in the Crown Picture Palace, Ardrossan, on Tuesday, ?9 2s was realised on behalf of the strikers' families.

In 1913, "Shahzada Cambay" launched at Ardrossan

From "The Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald" dated 31st January 1913.

Last Saturday the Ardrossan Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Limited launched from their shipyard the steel screw steamer "Shahzada Cambay."
The vessel was built for the Cambay State, India, to the order of Messrs. John Birch and Company Limited, London.