The schooner Maggie Hunter (1876)
ex-John S. Clarke (1862)
General
Port of St Catherines Registry, Number 1 of 1862
| Name: MAGGIE HUNTER | Type: schooner |
| Original Registration: Name: JOHN S. CLARK, 1862-03-11 | |
| Official Number: 72954 | |
| Tons (gross): 168.94 | Tons (net): 168.94 |
| Where Built: Mill Point | Port of Registry / Hail: St. Catharines, no. 1 of 1862 |
| Build Year: 1862 | Value: |
| Builder’s Name & Date of Certification: William Jameson, Mill Point; 1862 | |
| Master’s Name: | Subscribing Owners: |
| Length; 104 feet and 0/10ths. | Breadth; 24 feet and 3/10ths |
| Depth of Hold; 9 feet and 9/10ths | Masts: 2 |
| Stern: square | Bowsprit: |
| How Built: carvel, frame wood and iron | How Rigged: schooner |
| Figure-head: no | Decks: 1 |
NOTATIONS: Register closed Sept. 1876, Cause: Lost. [Source of Data: N.A.C., MG-40 D3 B.T., B-3716, 1876, VOL. 3 - St. Catherines]
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See also the entry for the schooner Maggie Hunter and previous name, schooner John S. Clark in our ships Database.
Newspaper transcriptions
- References to the schooner Picton appear in C.H.J Snider's work:
Schooner Days DIX (509) The Round-Sterned Enterprise, 23 Aug 1941
But, Schooner Days CCLXV (265) Taits From The Isle Of Tante, 7 Nov 1936, could be the origins a commonly held error that the Maggie Hunter had been the Helen – this is surely a different vessel.
References and source notes
C.H.J. Snider Schooner Days index, Naval Marine Archive.