"A Melancholy Accident"

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Galloway Advertiser and Wigtownshire Free Press
Thursday March 29th 1883

"TWO FISHERMEN DROWNED IN LOCH RYAN,-
On Tuesday afternoon John Coulter and John Hannay,
salmon fishers, residing in Ballantrae, left there
in their boat, accompanied by a man named Lyons,
for Port Beg, parish of Kirkcolm, for the purpose
of plying their occupation. Lyons wishing to return
home in the evening, they took him across the loch
to Glenapp Bay. They had not gone far on the return
journey to Port Beg, the wind blowing strongly from
the N.N.W at the time, when the boat was observed
all at once to disappear from sight, and both men
were drowned. Yesterday a small fleet of boats were
out dredging for the bodies, but without success."


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The Galloway Gazette
Saturday March 31st 1883

"TWO MEN DROWNED IN LOCH RYAN.-
On Tuesday afternoon a melancholy accident
occurred in Lochryan. Two men named John Coulter
and John Hanney both residing in Ballantrae, went
from there accompaned (sic) by a man named Lyon
to prosecute their calling of salmon fishing on
the Kirkcolm shore. In the afternoon, Lyon was
conveyed across the Loch to Glenapp, as he wished
to return home. On their passage back and not far
from the shore a sudden squall struck the boat,
which at once disappeared. The men were not
afterwards seen. It is said that the accident was
observed from a smack but owing to the violence
of the storm no assistance could be rendered."


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