HMS Dartmouth was wrecked while on a mission to persuade the MacLeans of Duart to sign allegiance to a male monarch, informally known by what name in Northern Ireland and Scotland?
HMS Dartmouth (1655) HMS "Dartmouth" was a small frigate or fifth-rate ship, one of six ordered by the Council of State on 28 December 1654 and built in 1655. At the end of July 1689 HMS Dartmouth, commanded by John Leake, managed to break through the boom on the River Foyle allowing the siege of Londonderry by forces of James II to be relieved. After a lengthy career in the Royal Navy, she was wrecked in the Sound of Mull on 9 October 1690, while on a mission to persuade the MacLeans of Duart to sign Articles of Allegiance to William III and Mary II.
Ayre (landform) Ayre is the name used for shingle beaches in Orkney and Shetland. The word is derived from the Old Norse "eyrr" meaning a shingle beach or gravelly place and may be applied to ordinary beaches, to cliff-foot beaches such as the Lang Ayre in Northmavine, Shetland, to spits, bars and tombolos, but only if formed of shingle. More than 130 such shingle beaches are named on Ordnance Survey maps of Shetland, but far fewer in Orkney, where most beaches are formed of sand. The word in its Old Norse form is common in Iceland and it also occurs in a few place names in the north and west of the Scottish mainland which had a strong Norse influence, such as Eriboll ("a homestead on a shingle beach"). Churchill Barrier number 4 in Orkney used a shingle spit, the Ayre of Cara on South Ronaldsay, as its southern landfall. The ayre is still named on maps, despite its having all but vanished under the causeway and the sand dunes that have accumulated on its eastern side.