Rambler

Built in Leith in 1800, the Rambler (with the Humphreys, Spencer and Isle of Skye took emigrants, largely from Mull to PEI in the summer of 1806.

The Rambler apparently also brought Mull emigrants out to PEI in 1803 and settlers from Perthshire in 1807. That same year, the vessel was lost, this from the Inverness Journal of 25 December 1807,

'We have just received the melancholy accounts of the loss of the brig Rambler, of Leith, James Norris, master, cleared out at this port in September last for Pictou with emigrants. They left Stromness the 1st of October, and on the 29th of the same month were totally wrecked near the Bay of Bulls, in Newfoundland. When the ship left this port she had on board 130 passengers; the crew consisted of 14 seamen, besides the Captain and Surgeon. Of these, the only survivors are three passengers. the second mate, and four seamen; so that, melancholy to relate, 138 persons have perished on this unfortunate voyage.'

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