Chapter 6: Ships

Ships

There were 120 ships built in Advocate between 1816 and 1925, as shown in Table 1 (note 1):

Schooners: 63
Brigantines: 25
Brigs: 14
Barques: 9
Terns: 7
Topsail Schooners: 1
Schooners, four-masted: 1

From Table 1 it can be seen that there were only nine ships built in Advocate from 1816 to 1840. Then in the 1840s there were 15 ships built; in the 1850s, 19 ships; in the 1860s, 25, in the 1870s, 21; in the 1880s, 13; and in the 1890s, 11. Then no more built until 1916 and only seven between then and 1925. From Table 2 one can see that 19 ships were built in Eatonville between 1874 and 19191. Table 3 shows that four ships were built in Cape d’Or between 1889 and 19191. Towards the end of the 1800s, steel ships began to replace wooden ships.

Definitions

The following definitions and pictures will help refresh your memories on how the ships differed from one another.

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of the two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. the topsail schooner also has a square topsail on the foremast.

Brigantine

The Brigantine is a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, with fore-and-aft sails on the mainmast.

Brig

A Brig is a two-masted vessel, square rigged on both masts.

Barque

A Barque, usually a three-masted vessel, the fore and main mast square rigged and the mizzen mast, or after mast, rigged fore and aft. A four-masted Barque is below

Tern

The Tern schooner is a three-masted ship.

Topsail Schooner

Table 1: Ships Built in Advocate

DATE	RIG	NAME
1816	Schooner	Rachel
1817	Schooner	Jane
1824	Schooner	Union
1834	Schooner	Adelaide
1834	Schooner	Rachel
1837	Brig	Napoleon III
1837	Schooner	Albion
1839	Brigantine	Chalcedony
1839	Brig	Helen
1840	Schooner	Advocate
1840	Schooner	Amethest
1842	Brig	Etree
1844	Brigantine	Caroline Leisure
1844	Schooner	Salem
1845	Brig	Kentville
1845	Schooner	Vanguard
1846	Schooner	Odessa
1846	Brigantine	Mary Sophia
1847	Brig	Clarence
1848	Schooner	Sago
1849	Schooner	Fidelia
1849	Schooner	Windsor
1849	Schooner	Belmont
1849	Schooner	Sidonia
1850	Schooner	Harp
1850	Brig	Brothers
1850	Schooner	Enevant
1851	Brig	Vitruvius
1851	Brig	Clifton
1852	Brig	Frederick
1853	Brig	Cordelia
1853	Barque	Asia
1854	Brig	Francis Paul
1854	Brigantine	Belona
1854	Brig	Glide
1855	Schooner	Sabine
1855	Schooner	Ann
1856	Barque	Glenalvon
1856	Brigantine	Orkney
1857	Schooner	Curasoa
1857	Schooner	The TS Harding
1858	Barque	Pleaides
1859	Brigantine	Firm
1860	Schooner	Dundee
1861	Brigantine	Stromness
1861	Schooner	Charles D Horton
1861	Brigantine	J Blenkhorn
1862	Schooner	Plymouth
1862	Schooner	Amy M
1862	Schooner	Dundee
1863	Schooner	C Wood
1863	Schooner	J Morton
1863	Brig	Romaine
1863	Brigantine	Kalamo
1864	Brigantine	Angola
1865	Schooner	Uber
1865	Brig	Albert Dewis
1865	Brigantine	Julia A Kelly
1865	Brigantine	Catherine Morris
1865	Schooner	Only Son
1866	Schooner	Rescue
1866	Brigantine	Arctic
1867	Brigantine	Ottawa
1867	Brigantine	GW Morris
1867	Brigantine	James Givan
1868	Schooner	Only Son
1869	Barque	JP Pazant
1869	Brigantine	Three Sisters
1870	Brigantine	Martha B Knickerson
1871	Schooner	GF Day
1871	Brigantine	Wesley & Seymour
1871	Brigantine	J Williams
1872	Schooner	Annie Brown
1873	Schooner	Henry Buschman
1873	Schooner	Ada
1873	Brigantine	Prince Laboo
1874	Schooner	Florence Mary
1874	Schooner	SH Sweet
1874	Barque	Advocate
1874	Barque	JE Suthergreen
1874	Schooner	Ora
1875	Brigantine	TL Stuart
1876	Brigantine	Ivanhoe
1877	Barque	Gladovia
1878	Schooner	Frith and Murphy
1878	Schooner	Carrie Maude
1878	Schooner	Lizzie Morris
1879	Schooner	Hopefield
1879	Schooner	Island Star
1880	Barque	NB Morris
1881	Schooner	Mabel
1881	Schooner	Laura Brown
1881	Brigantine	Rise and Shine
1882	Schooner	Harry Morris
1883	Brigantine	Energy
1883	Schooner	Carrie Easler
1885	Topsail Schooner	Bessie E Crane
1885	Schooner	Trader
1886	Schooner	Chautauqua
1888	Schooner	Avalon
1888	Schooner	Genius
1889	Schooner	Osceola
1890	Schooner	Patriot
1890	Tern	Nettie Shaw
1890	Schooner	Mineola
1891	Schooner	Glenola
1891	Schooner	Athol
1891	Tern	RL Dewis
1891	Schooner	Gladstone
1892	Schooner	Myrtle M
1892	Barque	Robert Ewing
1892	Schooner	Wellman Hall
1893	Tern	Athlete
1916	Tern	Cumberland County
1917	Tern	EH Wharton Davis
1918	Schooner (four-masted)	Adamac
1918	Schooner	Cape d’Or
1919	Schooner	AO Seaman
1919	Schooner	Arawana
1919	Tern	Nova Queen
1920	Tern	TK Bentley
1925	Schooner	Advocate

Table 2: Ships Built in Eatonville

DATE	RIG	NAME
1874	Barque	Chignecto
1875	Barque	Flashlight
1877	Ship	D.R. Eaton
1877	Schooner	Nota Bene
1878	Ship	Theodore H Rand
1880	Ship	Fred E. Scammell
1882	Barque	Robert S. Besnard
1882	Schooner	Cygnet
1883	Barque	Scammell Bros.
1883	Schooner	Sower
1884	Ship	Joseph H. Scammell
1885	Barque	Sodium
1886	Barque	Salina
1887	Barque	Pleaides
1890	Barque	Argenta
1891	Schooner	Sierra
1897	Barque	Greenland
1918	Tern	Ella L. Williams
1919	Tern	J. R. Ralston

Table 3: Ships Built in Cape d’Or

DATE	RIG	NAME
1889	Schooner	Only Son
1907	Schooner	Vanguard
1918	Schooner	Cape d’Or
1919	Schooner	A.O. Seaman

NOTES

1. Sourced from Sails of Fundy by Stanley T. Spicer and a document by Chas. E. Reid dated 24 May 1924 and titled Advocate Ships 1854 to 1920.

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CHAPTERS
Chapter 1: In the Beginning
Chapter 2: Land Grants
Chapter 3: Early Settlers
Chapter 4: School Records
Chapter 5: Occupations
Chapter 6: Ships
Chapter 7: Lighthouses and their Keepers
Chapter 8: Churches of Advocate
Chapter 9: Burial Sites
Recollection I: Around the World in Sail
Recollection II: Sketch from Miles Collins
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