
Alistair Laird
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£12,000 - £18,000
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PROVENANCE:
Sale, Sotheby's London, 6th June 1984, lot 156
Purchased from the above by the present owner
The Jersey brig Masonic was built by Philip J. Grandin in his yard at First Tower, west of St. Helier, in 1857. Registered at 155 tons, she measured 103 feet in length with a 20 foot beam and was initially owned by Daniel Le Couteur. Under her first master, Captain Godel, she began her career trading from Jersey to South America but in 1867 was sold to W. Griffith of London. Her new owner put her into the African trade where she remained until the early 1870s. Sold to another London owner, G. H. Gann around 1873, she then began running to Ascension Island until disappearing from record about ten years after that.