Lady Caitilin An MacGreagare
Greetings! I am Lady Caitilin An MacGreagare, I hail
from the highlands of Scotland, Fifteenth Century. I am a widow. My heart
Daniel perished with honor on the field of battle....or was it my
cooking? I'll never tell. I am a fighter for what's
right, and my latest endeavor is capturing myself a brigantine ship. I've
named her "Sinister Agra." I and my sisters are prepared to set sail looking
for adventure and pure profit.
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ABOUT THE SINISTER AGRA
She was once known as the Edinburgh of Campbeltown.
After she was captured, she was renamed the Sinister Agra. She's a brigantine
of 79 1/4 tons built at Leith in 1465 almost certainly to take part
in the North Highland herring fisheries under the Government's bounty scheme
in the winter and to undertake general trading voyages for the rest of
the year. She's 51 feet long and 19 feet 6 inches maximum breadth, as measured
by the customs officials.... about 9 feet in depth from
deck to keel.... In 1470 she had four owners: Peter
Stewart, writer and merchant; and Alexander McAlester, writer and merchant;
John McAlister, merchant; and Alexander McDonald, merchant.
Her master from the start had been John McMichael
from Southend, who was about 32 or 33 at the time of these voyages. He
continued as master in the 1470s until the Edinburgh had passed into the
hands of Lady Caitilin An MacGreagare and Company in 1474. She had a crew
of
eight for trading voyages and seventeen when
she went herring fishing."
From 1474 she became the Merchant ship, with Lady MacGreagare
at the helm. The Crew are all women of various backgrounds but with one
common bond: They are all sisters and daughters of Caitilin An.