Re: News extracts: June 18, 1850: Shipwreck at Portpatrick [Carstairs, M'Neill]

Hi Colin,
I would just like to thank you for posting the Dumfries link - I volunteer
at a local history museum and we were looking at ways to encourage people to
visit when I saw your post. I have noted some wonderful ideas to use at the
museum that will suit our collection.
Regards,

Di

Vic. Aust.

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Transcribed from the 1 July 1850 edition of The Armagh Guardian
newspaper, by permission of The British Library:

Died.
June 18, in the wreck of the "Orien," at Portpatrick, Alexander
M'Neill, Esq., of Ardlussa, Jura, and his wife, Anne Elizabeth, fourth
daughter of the late John Carstairs, Esq., of Stratford-green, Essex,
with Cecil Anne and Hester Mary, their eldest and youngest daughters.

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Probably the Orion?....

http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/dumgal/MiniWeb.aspx?id=180&menuid=2865&openid=2818&pageid=5051

Quote:
This [chair - see photo] is made from wood taken from the wreck of a ship.
The ship was called the "Orion". She sank outside Portpatrick harbour 150
years ago. Chair made from the wreck of the 'Orion'
17 June 1850
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire
The 'Orion', an iron paddle steamer, was wrecked outside Portpatrick
harbour.
Many ships have been wrecked close to the coast of Dumfries and Galloway.
One of the most tragic was the Orion that sank off Portpatrick in 1850.
The Orion was an iron paddle steamer built in Greenock in 1846. On 17th
June 1850 she left Liverpool for Glasgow with 110 passengers on board. The
next morning, navigating in a thick mist, she struck a submerged rock in
the entrance to Portpatrick harbour. A huge hole was torn in the ship's
watertight bulkheads and she sank within minutes.
At least 60 passengers were drowned. Some were still asleep in their
cabins and others were caught in the suction of the ship as she went down.
This simple, high-backed chair was made with timbers salvaged from the
Orion. Another memorial to the ship's passengers and crew can be seen
built into the wall of Portpatrick old churchyard.


Ebay has an illustration of the ship from the Illustrated London
News -1850

http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-ORION,-STEAMER,-SHIP,-Illustrated-London-News--1850_W0QQitemZ260249021908QQcmdZViewItem?IMSfp=TL0806081022r35750



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