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TABLE 4-6. The wood-types used in the masts of ships built on Prince Edward Island between 1856 and 1864, as inserted on the form by the Lloyd’s inspector. (All inspection forms from form number 1 in 1856 up to form number 396 in 1864 were examined.)

VESSEL Lloyd’s number. I Vessel's name.l (rigging.)

17. Panthea (Ba)

19. Camilla (b)

21. Sir Colin Campbell (B)

27. Susannah (B) 34. Elfin (b)

49. Spray (B)

52. Aurora (Ba) 53. Belinda (b)

Shipyard location

Green Shore ’all of spruce‘. Pisquid River ‘top mast and bow sprit of spruce’.

St. Andrew’s Point ‘bowsprits are of hemlock, topmasts of spruce’.

Tree-types in “masts, yards etc.”

Cranberry Point ‘main mast & bowsprit of White Pine‘. [_ sts] & topmasts — spruce.‘ *

Egmont Bay Her masts, yards & topmast &c. all spruce.

Beech Point, Lot 17 ’[ ] masts of yellow pine, the remainder of spars all of spruce’.

Georgetown ‘Her masts — spruce, Bowsprit White Hemlock, remainder of spars spruce.‘ Richmond Bay ‘of pine & spruce‘.

70. Lady Daly (Ba) St. Andrew’s Point ’Fore mast & Main mast Hemlock White. Mizen — spruce’.

A letter, dated London 1857, is attached to the form for the Panthea saying that the “windlass of black birch is to be replaced by oak”.

Rigging: Ba - barque; ba - barquentine; B - brig; b - brigantine.

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