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.

The Dan Glaister, belonging to the port of Macduff,  Capt.McDonald, bound from Wick to Holm with a cargo of fish, was wrecked three and a quarter miles from Stornoway on the morning of 7th May 1877. The schooner had been anchored, but was driven onto rocks, where she became a total wreck. All five crew survived.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Dan Glaister
1851
 77
 
 
 
2
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. Maryport Shipping Register 1838-52 (TSR 2/1 at Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle).
  2. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Dan Glaister, 77 tons, official number 14604, signal letters LNTM, registered at Banff.
  3. The Cumberland Pacquet newspaper, Tues., 27th January 1857, Shipping Intelligence.
  4. Claytons's Register of Shipping 1865: Dan Glaister, 71 tons, registered at Banff, owned by Jas.Wilson, shipbroker of Macduff, and commanded by Capt.Ritchie.
  5. Mercantile Navy List 1876: Dan Glaister, schooner, 70 tons, built at Maryport in 1851, official number 14604, signal letters LNTM, registered at Banff, owned by James Wilson, Shore, Macduff.
  6. Wreck reported in the Times newspaper, Monday, 21st May 1877, page 4, and in the Aberdeen Weekly Journal, Tuesday, 8th May 1877.