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andymacb

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Hi Rab and any other members interested in ships and shipwrecks particulary connected to Scotand.
Today I was looking on the web for items on the Scottish Borders as my wife particulary wants to spend a few days there during our forhthcomung viist in earle May.

I found a reference to a sailing ship mamed the " County of Roxburgh". This ship was built by Barclay- Curle shipyards on the Clyde and launched  in the 19th century and was wrecked in a Typhoon in French Polynesia in 1906 on a voyage from Chile to Melbourne, Australia. Her naster was a Scotsman born in Banff. The hull of the ship still lies atop the coral reef to this day.
It is worthwhile going to the web site www.county-of-roxburgh.com 


Andy Barclay FSA Scot. 
 

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Beauty Andy, you is da man

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andymacb

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Hi Rab,
I thought that you would like it. You know it is amazing what you can turn up on the imternet by sheer "bloody luck mate". Also to be a Barclay - Curle ship, to boot, that's a bonzer beauty.
The Barclay ship yard was started by a John Barclay 1n 1818 amd I intend to track this guy this guy down. My GGGF started in his engineering business in Kilmarnock around 1845 and I am hoping to get his details on line this year.

People like him and John Barclay, of Barclay - Curle were at the early development of Engineering in Scotland. They were at the pioneering stage of the industrial revolution.

Andy Barclay FSA Scot.

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cameroncuk

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great web site ---very cleverly done.

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andymacb

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Hi Cameron,
It is indeed a great site and I must appolgise to you and all for the " keystroke errors" in my post.

Sometimes I do not take time to properly read through wht i have typed.

There is so much information pertaining to Scotland that one finds on the web and elsewhere. I for one like to share this information with the group. The new forum allows this to be done on a selective subject basis that in the old site would have been classified as O/T.

It would even better if the new forum could use PDF. Is there an easy way to attach a PDF to a posting?

Andy barclay FSA Scot.
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cagentry64

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Great reading, Andy.

I also appreciated the "othr sites" at last page.

Clyde

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just found your Roxburgh (sp?) site Absolutely wonderful. Love to be able to produce something like that, but come to think of it Cameron does us pretty well, and Clyde too. Glad to see you are on deck again Clyde - still longing for some peaceful hours to explore your castles. Jane

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