Douglas Reid Kinnier
Captain Douglas Reid Kinnier (20 October 1858 – 24 December 1916) was a distinguished British seaman who rose to prominence in the early months of the First World War for a daring escape from the German cruiser in uncharted seas in the vicinity of the Magellan Straits. Background Captain Kinnier was born on 20 October 1858, the second son of Robert Snodgrass Kinnier, a surgeon, and Agnes Corse Stirling, daughter of Glasgow manufacturer William Stirling and a niece of Hugh Auchincloss, the New York merchant. He grew up in Saltcoats, Ayrshire until, against his father's wishes, he went to sea in 1874. On 20 May 1889 he married Minnie Agnes Martin and had five children: Major Douglas Reid Kinnier T.D., Hugh Stirling Kinnier, Anna Josephine Kinnier, Gertrude Kinnier and Captain Keith Robert Martin Kinnier, O.B.E. The ''Ortega'' and the escape from the ''Dresden'' On 18 September 1914 Captain Kinnier was the commander of the ''Ortega'' which was traveling southward along the ...
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Saltcoats
Saltcoats ( gd, Baile an t-Salainn) is a town on the west coast of North Ayrshire, Scotland. The name is derived from the town's earliest industry when salt was harvested from the sea water of the Firth of Clyde, carried out in small cottages along the shore. It is part of the 'Three Towns' conurbation along with Ardrossan and Stevenston and is the third largest town in North Ayrshire. History In the late eighteenth century, several shipyards operated at Saltcoats, producing some sixty to seventy ships. The leading shipbuilder was William Ritchie, but in 1790 he moved his business to Belfast. By the early nineteenth century, the town had stopped producing ships. Saltcoats Town Hall, which dates back to 1826, is a Category B listed building. In 2018, a statue to commemorate the popular football Bobby Lennox, from the town, was constructed across from the main station. Governance Saltcoats is part of the North Ayrshire and Arran constituency in the House of Commons and Cunningh ...
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