The Flora Kerr was a barque launched at Glasgow in 1840 built by Hedderwick & Rankin for Thomas Mitchell.
She carried general cargo such as grain, oats, sugar, jute, hemp, indigo, rice, horn tips, rattans, hides and herring.
The captain tested the pumps in dock and found them faulty otherwise they could have resulted in the loss of the ship.
Among those arriving on the Flora Kerr under Captain Symons was Charles Burney Young.
[12] On 28 March 1858 on the voyage from Berbice, Guyana, to London carrying a cargo of sugar and rum the ship caught fire off the Western Isles and was abandoned.