AYR OBSERVER, TUESDAY 30TH DECEMBER 1879
THE GARELOCH
During the gale on Sunday night, about six o’clock, the large ship Ardenlea dragged her anchors and went on the Shandon shore. About the same time a lighter, supposed to be the Eva, of Greenock (Sweenie, the owner, and another man on board), dragged from near Barremman Pier and went over to the Shandon side and sank, but the men escaped safe; and between seven and eight the large steamer Nemesis, owned by Messrs Denny, Dumbarton, dragged her anchor and was driven ashore near Blairvaddich. It is not supposed they will be much damaged.
The trees in Rosneath wood have suffered severely. During the storm on Saturday afternoon the schooner Banshee, owned in Greenock by Mr Nicol, carpenter, ladened with coal for Fort William, put into Roseneath point for shelter, where she filled and sank. The owner and three of the crew had a narrow escape of being drowned.
Shandon People and History 