SHIP BUILDING

In this coastal community being so near the sea, many families became involved in the ship building industry. These wooden sailing vessels were constructed to trade around the Maritimes and Newfoundland. Many of the vessels, however visited ports in America, the West Indies

and Europe. Following is an excerpt from the Palladium, March 31 - 1845.

"On the 20th inst. from the shipyard of John and James McMillan, Covehead, a substantially built brigatine of 120 tons was launched, called the "Jane" also on the same day from Messrs. John and James McMillian's shipyard, Covehead, a fine brigatine of 107 tons called the "Hope". Both vessels are represented to be built in a super- ior manner for the Newfoundland market. They were drawn to the channel, a distance of about % mile by upwards of seventy horses without the slightest accident, affording much gratification to a great number of persons assembled from Charlottetown and other parts of the Island to witness the spectacle which was in no small

degree heightened by the fineness of the day."

A list of names of ships which mayyhave been built, owned or sailed

by residents of this area or their descendants is as follows:

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