D. Allan and Co
of Leith and Granton, boatbuilders
1875 March. Business commenced by David Allan
1880 D. Allan & Co., shipbuilders, Leith, launched from their yard a handsomely modelled named Sea Queen[1]
1881 The offer of Messrs Allan & Co., shipbuilders, Leith, for a lease of the shipbuilding yard at Berwick was accepted.[2]
1881 New shipbuilding yard at Caroline Park, Granton, recently taken over by Messrs D. Allan & Co., shipbuilders .[3]
1881 "SEVERAL STEAM TRAWLERS in course of construction, to be fitted with all the latest improvements. Apply D. ALLAN and Co. Leith."[4]
1881 Bankrupt[5]
1907 'Mr. David Allan, formerly of Leith and now of South Shields, was the designer, builder, and sailor of the first successful steam fishing vessel that ever put into the water. Combining the practical knowledge and experience of a fisherman with the skill of a naval architect and shipbuilder, he conceived the idea of constructing a vessel similar in many respects to those universally used for herring fishing at the present time. It was not a new experiment on the part of Mr. Allan. For some years prior to the completion of his first steam fishing vessel, which was in 1877, appalled by the number of casualties to sailing fishing boats, and the loss of life consequence thereto, shipbuilders up and down the country spared no effort nor expense to devise a vessel that would supersede this unseaworthy craft.' Article includes an image of David Allan.[6]