Main entry:

Parker, John P.

Title & Author:

Sails of the maritimes : the story of the three- and four-masted cargo schooners of Atlantic Canada, 1859-1929.

Publication:

Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, [1976]

Description:

226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Part One. Description and early life of the St. Clair Theriault. Summary of my career and how I came to own the schooner. Taking over the schooner. Various coastal voyages and installation of power. Voyage to Ireland and trouble in the River Moy. The final days of the St. Clair Theriault. -- Part Two. Development of the shipbuilding industry in Atlantic Canada. The small shipyards. Building and launching. The small crews. Decline of the large square-rigged ships. Comparison of rig. Summary of building methods used. General design of the large schooners. Description of working equipment. Masters and crews. Living arrangements. Variations of rig. Rigging and gear. Lifeboats -- Part Three. The early schooners. Building in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Increased rate of building at the end of the ninteenth century. New Brunswick schooners of the 1890's. Nova Scotian schooners of the period. Skilful seamanship. Notes on total loss. Annapolis schooners. Captain Richard Marshall. Life and trades in the schooners, 1890-1900. Prince Edward Island schooners of the period. Difficulties encountered with the Canadian registered schooners. Loss of the H.P.Kirkham. The fleet of gypsum schooners. Construction and equipment in the big schooners. Other schooners of the decade -- Part Four. The period between 1900 and the outbreak of World War One. The decline in building in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The first Newfoundland terns. The Nova Scotia schooners of the period. Captain J.L. Publicover. Captain D.S. Howard. The loss of the H.J. Logan. Captain Zephaniah Nickerson. The McManus model for terns. The loss of the Kenneth C. The Clipper Exilda. The only Canadian sailing ship built of steel. The decline of shipbuilding in 1909 and onward -- Part Five. The conduct of the war. Schooner building almost came to a stop. Captain L.C.Tower. The building boom got under way. Captain J.J.Whalen. The hard passage of the Edith M.Cavell. The capture of the Perce. The building boom gathered momemtum. Remarks on the economy of the times. The Marion G. Douglas. Captain Wilkie and the Vogue. The start of the building boom in Newfoundland. War building in New Brunswick, 1918. Remarks on starting up the old yards. 1918 in Nova Scotia. Two of the larges schooners built in Nova Scotia. The Governer Parr. Loss of the Cape D'Or. Vessels built in various parts of Nova Scotia in 1918. Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland in 1918. The loss of the Jean and Mary -- Part Six. The end of the war. The difficulties of the schooner owners. New Brunswick in 1919. Nova Scotia in 1919. The E.P. Theriault. The loss of the Peaceland. The race in 1928. Notes on the vessels built in Nova Scotia. Louis Kenedy. The first Cape Breton schooner. The Newfoundland schooners of 1919. Remarks on the schooners. The Newfoundland ships and their crews -- Part Seven. The closing years of wooden sailing shipbuilding. The Acadian. The Fieldwood and the Ena F. Parsons. The loss of the General Trenchard. Ownership of the schooners. Passages of the Nellie T. Walters. The Enid E. Legge, The McLean Clan. The last vessel build in Cape Breton. The Annna MacDonald, the last large sailing vessel build in Prince Edward Island. Newfoundland in 1920-21. Another note on ship losses. The last three-master in Newfoundland. The Mary B. Brooks, the last cargo schooner build in Nova Scotia, H.M.C.S. Venture -- Alphabetical List. The three- and four-masted cargo schooners built in Atlantic Canada, with their registered dimensions, tonnage, and date and place of building -- Ballads. Corbitt's Barquentine. The loss of the John Harvey -- Index.

ISBN:

007082424X
9780070824249

Subject:

Shipbuilding Canada.
Schooners.
Shipping Canada.
Schooners History.
Shipbuilding Atlantic Provinces History.
Shipping Atlantic Provinces History.
Goélettes Histoire.
Construction navale Provinces de l'Atlantique Histoire.
Transports maritimes Provinces de l'Atlantique Histoire.
Construction navale Canada.
Goélettes.
schooners.
Shipbuilding
Shipping
Canada Atlantic Provinces
Canada

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 37765
Call No.: 6804 CAN; ID:88-B8699
Status: Available