"County of Haddington" in Dundee Docks - Ref: WC0794
The "County of Haddington" was a regular visitor to the port of Dundee in the late 1880s, when she brought jute from Calcutta for processing in the city's mills. Her passage from India varied between 109 days and 150.
She was built by Barclay, Curle and Co., of Glasgow, in 1878 for R. and J. Craig of Glasgow. She was an iron, full-rigged, four-masted ship, with a gross tonnage of 1943 and overall length of 281 feet.
Alexander Wilson took this photograph after a trip from Calcutta. She did not call at the port after June 1890 until 9th April 1898, when a load of jute from Chittagong, in present-day Bangladesh, arrived.
Alexander Wilson who took this photograph, was a supervisor in a Dundee jute mill for over 20 years. He bequeathed much of his collection and £50, to cover the costs involved, to the Free Library Committee of Dundee in 1923.