Old photograph of the Lady Ailsa cargo boat at the pier on Ailsa Craig, an island in the outer Firth of Clyde, in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The only surviving buildings on the island are the lighthouse on its east coast facing the Scottish mainland, a ruined tower house, that was built by Clan Hamilton to protect the area from King Felipe II of Spain in the 16th century and the old quarry manager's cottage. Lady Ailsa was a British Cargo Steamer of 1,219 tons built in 1888 by Ailsa of Troon for J. & A. Wyllie, London. In 1899 she was renamed Belgian Prince and in 1897 she was renamed Hopefuly by her new owners F. H. Powell & Company. On the 13th February 1903 she was in collision off the Longships and sank. Longships is a group of rocky islets situated approximately 1 1⁄4 miles west of Land's End, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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