The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Robertson
Robertson was a three-masted, 105-foot wooden sailing ship built by Scott and Sons
at Greenock, Scotland in
1832.1
In 1859 the ship was chartered to carry freight, including stores for the Royal Engineers
surveying the Oregon Boundary,
to Victoria.2
1. Johnston Fraser Robb, Scotts of Greenock: Shipbuilders and Engineers, 1820-1920 [vol. 2], PhD diss., University of Glasgow, 1993, 82. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1376
2. Max. A. Robertson, ed. The English Reports [vol. 112] (Edinburgh: William Green & Sons, 1911), 376-381. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924064792728; Draft, Merivale to Hammond, 24 January 1860 [other document included] in Barnard
to Merivale, 12 January 1860, CO 305:15, no. 361, 108. V605AG01.html