DUNBRITTON 

DUNBRITTON WAS A 3 MASTED IRON HULL BARQUE BUILT IN 1875 BY McMILLAN & SON AND OWNED BY J.H WATTS & SONS GLASGOW ( SOME SOURCES PUT HER FIRST OWNERS AS BEING ANDREWS WEIR & CO OF GLASGOW, WHICH I THINK IS NOT CORRECT ) SUBSEQUENT OWNERS WERE J & A ALLEN IN 1883 AND THEN ANDREW WEIR & CO IN 1891 . SHE WAS A VESSEL OF 1,535 TONS AND REGISTERED IN PORT GLASGOW.ON 4TH FEBRUARY 1906 FOUNDERED IN THE NORTH SEA WHILE SHE WAS UNDER TOW BACK TO LEITH, HAVING BEEN DEMASTED IN THE NORTH SEA ( SHE HAD BEEN REPAIRED IN LEITH, BADLY AND WAS ACTUALLY DE-MASTED TWICE )

SHE DID  A VOYAGE CHARTERED TO SHAW SAVILL ( YEAR? )  LEAVING LONDON ON MARCH 12TH WITH 56 PASSENGERS ONBOARD BOUND FOR PORT CHALMERS ARRIVING THERE ON JUNE 13TH.

 

 

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