CALEDONIAN MERCURY, SATURDAY 1 JULY 1837. MELANCHOLY EVENT On Monday evening, two individuals, a male and a female, lost their lives on the Gairloch, at Shandon, near Helensburgh, under the following painful circumstances:- it appears that two or three of a gentleman’s family residing in that neighbourhood, having been out in a boat fishing onContinue reading “A Drowning”
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Fatal Boating Accident
HAMILTON ADVERTISER, SATURDAY 23RD JULY 1881 FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT A melancholy accident is reported from the Gareloch, by which Mr David Croll, manager, for the Dumbarton Rope Works Company, 114 Broomielaw, and residing at 3 Annfield Terrace, Partick; Mr Croll’s brother William, Miss McIlraith, and a young clergyman, have lost their lives by the upsettingContinue reading “Fatal Boating Accident”
Shandon People and History 