Packet (of Ayr) lost on West Hoyle Bank, 3 February 1833.
Sloop, 55 tons, built Ayr[Scotland], owned J. Telfer; Liverpool coasting.
Voyage Dundalk to Liverpool.
Records claim 2 crew lost and master and mate saved; or master and boy saved; or that 3
were lost; or that the body of the master was interred.
THE LATE STORM. - We stated, last week, that the Packet of Ayr, from Dundalk, (master Moffat) had, on the preceding Sunday Morning, been wrecked on the West Hoyle Bank. The crew, consisting of four individuals, got into the rigging, but they had not been there long before two of the hands were washed over-board and perished; the captain and a boy maintained their position, although constantly submerged by the roaring billows, until they were rescued early in the morning from their perilous situation by boats which put off for the vessel from Hoylake.
The vicar of Llanasa (parish of Point of Ayr) records on 5 Feb 1833 that the body was recovered of David Moffatt, aged 39, Master of the Packet Ayr wrecked near the Point of Ayr.
Kirkcudbright Castle lost on West Hoyle Bank, 3 February 1833.
Sloop, 53 tons, built Kirkcudbright 1822, owned Morrison & co.
Captain J Carter, Dublin coasting
Voyage Dundalk to Liverpool. All crew lost.
The Kirkcudbright Castle, which sailed from Dundalk in company with the Packet of Ayr, and which had been driven about and materially injured, it is supposed by frequent grounding during the night, was seen to go down off the same place, about eight o'clock on Sunday Morning. All hands perished. The bodies of the two men belonging to the sloop were washed on shore on Monday, and an inquest was held, on view of their bodies, before Thomas Whittell, Esq. one of the coroners of Chester, at Hoylake, on Tuesday last. Verdict: Found drowned.