Two-masted top-sail clipper schooner built in 1839 at the shipyard of Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen. Dimensions: 92'4"x19'4"x11'7" and 142 tons.

1839 July 15 
     Launched for a part ownership headed by Messrs Alexander Nicol an
     George Munro, Aberdeen. She was intended for the Aberdeen-London run
     where she was very successful together with two other schooners. The
     building cost was £1700. 

There is a photograph of her from the 1850s showing her with a butter-head rig.

Scottish Maid, which was built with the Aberdeen bow to cheat the British tonnage laws, has often been called the first "true clipper" an honor she shares with Rainbow and Ann McKim.

Select Bibliography

 
     Anderson, R.C.: Hollow Bows and "First Clippers". 
     The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 31, London, 1945. p 109. 
     Cable, Boyd: The World's First Clipper. 
     The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 29, London, 1943. pp 66-91, ill., 4 plates. 
     Chapelle, Howard I.: The First Clipper. 
     The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 34, London, 1948. pp 26-33. 
     Henderson, J.: Hollow Bows and First Clippers. 
     The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 32, London, 1946. p 124. 
     Lyman, John: Butter-Rigged and Clipper-Rigged. 
     The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 63, London, 1977. p 50. 
     Lyman, John: The Scottish Maid as "The World's First Clipper". 
     The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 30, London, 1944. pp 194-199,ill. 
     Salisbury, William: Hollow Water-Lines and Early Clippers. 
     The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 32, London, 1946. pp 237-241, 1 plate.