Dan Glaister

Official Number 14604

The Dan Glaister was a schooner built by William Wood & Sons at Maryport in 1851. Her first master was Capt.Dan Glaister, succeeded by his nephew Joseph Glaister in 1853. By 1857 the schooner's registration had been transferred to Banff, Scotland.

In 1857 a Whitehaven newspaper reported that on the 20th January the Dan Glaister, Capt.Wilson, from Liverpool with salt, was ashore 2 miles N of Montrose. The crew had been taken off by lifeboat but the master had refused to leave. The schooner's name appeared in shipping news later in the year, so presumably she was got off without undue damage.

In 1865 the Dan Glaister was still registered at Banff, noted as being owned by Jas.Wilson, shipbroker of Macduff, and under the command of Capt.Ritchie (see Source 4).

The Dan Glaister, belonging to the port of Macduff,  was wrecked whilst carrying a cargo of fish in the week ending 12th May, 1877. All the crew were saved.
 

Sources :

1. Maryport Shipping Register 1838-52 (TSR 2/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle).
2. 1857 Mercantile Navy List gives port of registry as Banff, official number and signal letters LNTM, tonnage 77.
3. The Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, Tues., 27th January 1857, Shipping Intelligence.
4. Claytons's Register of Shipping 1865 - tonnage given as 71 tons.
5. Wreck reported in the Times newspaper, Monday, 21st May 1877, page 4.