Masts fail the inspection.
The planks pass.
Spars fail.
An inspection of island masts at La Rochelle.
The masts fail the lnspec tlon.
New samples recommended to be cut
Masts fail the inspection.
The planks pass.
Spars fail.
1729: 8 March
Vous trouveres c’y joint le procez verbal de la visite et Recette des masts et Mastreaux venus de l'lsle Royalle par le Dromadalre, cette masture ne sera pas Mgr d’un grand usage pour le service ces masts et mastreaux estant chargés de noeuds et d’un bois fort sec.
A l’esgard des 136 Bordages de pin de 3 pouces d’Epaisseur et de 204 autres du meme bois de deux pouces, ils ont esté bien travaillés et sont de la qualité de ceux de Quebec, le tout de I'Envoy de M'. de Mezy aussi bien que les 160 Esparres simples qui sont de la meme qualité de la masture c’y dessus.
[PAC, Reel 12879, Vol. 358, p. 18]
1 726: 6 March
I have received the letter that you had the honour of sending me on the first of this month on the subject of the proposal that Sieur Fleury is to send me on the extraction of masts from lle Saint-Jean after the inspection will have been made of those from the island that are at La Rochelle. I was hoping Monseigneur to report to you on this business only after it had been carried out, but the foreman of the battelier of the masts having fallen ill, I am obliged to postpone having this inspection carried out until the foreman is in a state to accompany the port officer that I will send to carry
out this inspection at La Rochelle. [PAC, Reel 12879, Vol. 355, p. 30]
1726: 6 April
I have the honour of sending you the inspection report on the masts taken from lie Saint-Jean. It seems from the report Monseigneur that the quality of these masts is not much good, that they are all in different ways full of knots, of a wide grain, and without moisture. Sieur Fleury in the report here attached, which I received from him this morning, maintains that this dryness is due to these masts being from old eats:
[sic]. If you are agreeable Monseigneur to ordering Monsieur de Mezy to have some pines and red and white spruces cut and to send some sections of them on the King’s ship on its return, one would make a better judgement of the quality of theeHeeds- this masting.
[PAC, Reel 12879, Vol. 355, p. 37]
1729: 8 March
You will find included the report of the inspection and the receipt for masts and small masts arrived from Ile Royalle on the Dromadaire. This masting, Monseigneur, will not be of great use to us, the masts and small masts being full of knots and the wood very dry.
With regard to the 136 pine planks of 3 inch thickness and the 204 others of the same wood of 2 inches, they have been well made and are of the quality of those of Quebec. The whole of the shipment from Monsieur de Mezy as well as the 160 single spars are of the same quality as the above masting.
[PAC, Reel 12879, Vol. 358, p. 18]
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