101 jaar geleden.
Krantenknipsels uit de plaatselijke krant van
Ayr in 1890.
Ayr is een stad in Schotland.
Ayr Advertiser 30 januari 1890 pagina 8
Wright-Drowned at Callandsoog, near Amsterdam, John Wright,
steward, ship "Loch Moidard (late baker of Ayr) deeply regret-
ted.
Ayr Advertiser 30 januari 1890 pagina 7
Loss Of A Glasgow Ship And Thirty Lives.
The following telegram from Lloyd's, sent by their Amsterdam
agent, was received on Sunday morning:-"The British ship Loch
Moidart, form Iquique for Hamburg, has gone ashore at Calland
soog, and is a'total wreek. Thirty of the crew were drowned."
The loch Moidart was a four-masted sailing vessel of 2000 tons
register, built by Messrs Barclay, Curie, Co., Whiteinch, in
1881. She left Glasgow for Melbourne on the 26th March last,
crossed subsequently to the West Coast of America, and was on
her homeward voyage from the West Coast to Hamburg, with a
full cargo of nitrate. According to the latest telegrams the
vessel has become a total wreek. All hands, with the exception
of two, whose names are at present unknown, have been lost.
Ayr Advertiser 6 februari 1890 pagina 7
The Wreek of the Loch Moidart.-The two survivors of the wreek
of the Glasgow ship Loch Moidart, which was driven on to a
sandbank off the coast of Holland on Sunday morning week, and
afterwards went to picees, arrived at Leith on Sunday from
Rotterdam. As formerly reported, the crew numbered thirty-two
men, and the account which has now been given of the manner of
the death of thirty of their number is a peculiarly distres-
sing one. The ship went on to the sandbank about four o'clock
in the morning. A boat's crew which put off shortly afterwards
capsized. It contained five men, three of whom were drowned,
the other two-the survivors-swimming ashore through the surf,
a distance of about 400 yards. The remaining twenty-seven men
took to the riggiug and remained there till the ship went to
pieces on the following day, three successive attempts to
throw a line by the rocket apparatus having f ai led. A large
crowd on the beach witnessed the painful spectacle, without
being able to render assistance.
TOEVALLIG
In 1988 gingen Annie en Nick Smit op familiebezoek naar Nieuw Zeeland.
Op een dag stond Annie voor een etalage van een modezaak in Auckland.
Naast haar kwamen twee dames staan, die tot haar verbazing een taal spraken die zij na
nog even goed geluisterd te hebben, herkende. Het was Westfries.
Dus zei Annie: "Jullie komme zeker ok uit de Streek?"
Een verbaasde dame antwoordde: "Vanzelf, we komme uit Bovenkarspel. En jij?"
Annie: "Nou das toevallig, ik ok".
Dame: "Dan ken je vast wel Nick Smit."
Annie: "Nou en of. Daar ben ik mee trouwt!"
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