Man who designed famous tea clipper

Built on the west coast in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, the Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers, and one of the fastest before sail gave way to steam.

She spent only a few years in that role before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, and for a decade held the record time for the voyage to Britain.

She was designed by Bervie-born Hercules Linton in the Dumbarton yard on the River Leven that he set up with William Dundas Scott to form the shipbuilding form of Scott & Linton.

But the firm hit financial difficulties and the Cutty Sark was eventually completed after agreement was reached with another yard, five months late to launch.

Linton, who had 10 children, returned to Montrose and then Inverbervie, where he was elected to the burgh council in 1895.

He was 64 when he died of a heart problem in May 1900.

The Cutty Sark and its designer, Hercules Linton.