Auld Alasdair

The Auld Alasdair was a mediaeval Scottish carrack forming part of the Halcyonian Flotilla, and later the Eastern Fleet. The Auld Alasdair is most famous for being the first human ship to sight the continent of Tairghol, and the honour of naming the continent went to one of its lookouts.
The Auld Alasdair was named for its captain, Alexander of Argyll. It was commissioned at a boatyard in Halcyonia during the later stages of the Tyrant's War, and left the war-torn continent with the rest of the flotilla in around 805BCE.
When the Halcyonian Flotilla reached their new land, the Auld Alasdair was the first to sight the continent. The lookout at the time is said to have remarked that the land 'looked awfully gravelly' - likely a reference to the grey water in Nagrejgi Bay due to clay deposits in the Flentia River. This statement translated into a name - 'Gravelly Land', or, as it was stated in Scots Gaelic, ‘Tìr Ghol’.
After this momentous act, the Auld Alasdair went on to follow the Scots contingent east along the coastline, eventually making their way inland and settling in what is now known as the ruined city of Brickelwhyte.
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