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 Ardrossan Property For Sale and Rent
The town and harbour were laid out by the
12th Earl of Eglin ton in 1805, but it was not until the use of
sea-going steamboats that the project began to be successful.
The
deep-water and well-equipped port handles an increasing volume of
imports and exports for the Scottish iron and steel industries.
The
great chemical works at Ardeer
and car-ferry and other vessels to Northern Ireland, the Isle
of Man, and
Arran.
The Shell oil refinery handles 1,000.000
tons of petroleum products annually, including fuel for Prestwick and Glasgow airports. But Ardrossan has extensive, clean
beaches, and (there are ample holiday-makers' pursuits, especially
sea fishing and boating.
Ardrossan in 1975 was given a new
interest, for in September of that year the first ship built there
for forty-five years was launched from an old yard resuscitated by
an Ardrossan man, who had
worked there in his youth, and brought it back to life nine years
earlier with small capital.
The ship was the Kylesku ferry Maid
of Glencoul.
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