"Maud" in Dundee Harbour - Ref: WC0865
Built as a sailing ship (wooden barque) by T. Turnbull and Sons of Whitby in 1865, the "Maud" was bought by William Adams in 1883 and converted into a whaling steamer in 1886. She had a gross tonnage of 298 and measured 116.7 feet in length.
Catches made by the "Maud" are recorded in the Dundee Yearbooks for 1889 (60 tons of oil and 50 cwt of whalebone from the Davis Straits), 1890 (100 tons of oil, 5.5 tons of bone), and 1891 (25 tons of oil, one of bone).
The "Maud" was wrecked at Coutt's Inlet in the Davis Strait (between Greenland and Baffin Island) in 1892. The vessel should not be confused with the similarly named "Maude", which was used by the Norwegian explorer, Amundsen.
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.