PASSAGIUM REGINAE The - Royal Dunfermline

PLATE IX
A LIMEKILNS SLOOP, THE ‘SIR WALTER SCOTT’
(CAPTAIN WILLIAM NESBITT, NEAR LEITH HARBOUR.
She carried passengers and goods previous to steamers
being put on the passage. She continued to sail after
the introduction of the paddle-steamer, and often com-
pleted her voyage when the steamer was compelled to
take shelter from the gale, and in a good lasting breeze
was faster than the steamer. [After a water-colour by James Bell.]
-Lord Robert Pitcairn 13th Laird of that Ilk and Forthar, Archdean of St. Andrews Commendator
of Dunfermline, Royal Legate, Secretary
of State to King James VI and Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth of England. Married only once
after the Reformation in 1577 to Euphemia Murray sister of Sir William Murray of Tullibardine.
His brother John Pitcairn became 14th Laird of that Ilk and Forthar and Limkilns in 1584, he
married Agnes Ayton and their son was Henry 15th Laird, and had life rent of Easter Gellet.
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