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[MARINE VESSELS]. “Stranded Vessel for Sale” for the London Packet Schooner Stranded at Beamer Rock. Glasgow: 1st November, 1851.
4to (279 x 196 mm). Packet ship broadside for the auction sale of Glasgow schooner “London Packet” to take place six days after this announcement, on 7 November 1851, in the harbour of the historic seaport village of St. David’s situated very near to Inverkeithing, Fife. Horizontal and vertical creases, one unobtrusive small chip to lower margin, some light soiling. An exceptionally rare example of an in-situ auction for a vessel during the Golden Age of Sail to announce the sale of a Scottish packet ship which had then been recently stranded on the notorious Beamer Rock.