The schooner Prince Edward (1867)
General
Port of Picton Registry, Number 1 for 1867
| Name: PRINCE EDWARD | Type: Schooner |
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| Official Number: | Tons: 123 |
| Where Built: Marysburgh | Where she belongs: Picton |
| Build Year: 1867 | Value: |
| Builders name & date of certificate: George Tait, April 24, 1867 | |
| Master’s Name: S. Mouck | |
| Length: 88 feet | Breadth: 19 feet & 9/10ths. |
| Depth of Hold: 9 feet & 5/10ths | Masts: Two |
| Stern: Square | Bowsprit: Standing |
| How Built: Carvel | How Rigged: Fore & Aft |
| Figure-head: None | Decks: One |
| Subscribing Owners: Chas. Wilson & Solomon Mouck. | |
NOTATIONS:
Surveyed by : John Clute, Landing Master and acting Surveyor
Subscribing Owners: Chas. Wilson & Solomon Mouck, sold to Chas. Anderson of Owen Sound, Dated May 30, 1870.
VESSEL WAS LOST ON COCKBURN ISLAND ON NOVEMBER 1879. REGISTER CLOSED MARCH 13, 1889.
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Schooner Prince Edward |
See also the entry for the schooner Prince Edward in our ships Database.
Notes and newspaper transcriptions
- The schooner Prince Edward was chronologally the seventeenth vessel registered in Prince Edward County, but the Registry is clear as "No 1 for 1867."
- From 1870 to 1877, Charles Anderson, owner, Owen Sound, mortgaged 32 shares to Margaret A. McNab of Owen Sound.
- From the 1879 Insurance Register : PRINCE EDWARD:- Prince Edward ( C ) 170 tons, built South Bay 1867 by Tait, Value $5,000 Class A 2 - Remarks - Rebuilt in 1878.
- Statement of Wreck & Casualty, Dept. of Marine & Fisheries, 1879 : PRINCE EDWARD, Schooner of 123 tons reg., of Picton, stranded on Cockburn Island, Georgian Bay, by a shift of wind on October 25, 1879; she was bound for Kincardine from Thessalon River. Built 1867 and was a total loss.
References and source notes
(1, 2) Naval Marine Archive, Willis Metcalfe fonds
(3, 4) Maritme History of the Great Lakes