The schooner Red Rover (1856)
General
Port of Picton Registry, Number 9 for 1863
| Name: RED ROVER | Type: Schooner |
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| Official Number: | Tons: 51 |
| Where Built: Bath | Where she belongs: Picton |
| Build Year: 1856 | Value: |
| Builders name & date of certificate: Left the Province, could not be obtained | |
| Master’s Name: S.Byrnes | |
| Length: 60 feet | Breadth: 19 feet |
| Depth of Hold: 6 feet | Masts: Two |
| Stern: Square | Bowsprit: Standing |
| How Built: Carvel | How Rigged: Fore & Aft |
| Figure-head: None | Decks: One |
| Subscribing Owners: Daniel S. Murney of Marysburg a trader sole owner | |
NOTATIONS:
Surveyed by : J. McCarroll, Surveyor of Cusoms, Toronto.
GONE UP THE SPOUT – BROKEN UP 1874
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Schooner Prince Edward |
See also the entry for the schooner Red Rover in our ships Database.
Notes and newspaper transcriptions
- The schooner Red Rover was chronologally the ninth vessel registered in Prince Edward County, but the Registry is clear as "No 1 for 1867."
- The early history of this schooner is elusive.
- The Red Rover apparently underwent "major repairs" in 1863. Ownership after that is found in the Registry : Daniel S. Murney of Marysburg, trader, sole owner ; mortgaged to George White of Marysburg dated 7 Aug. 1864 ; who sold to Isaac Noble, wood merchant of Kingston, dated 9 June 1865 ; who sold to Wm. Ryan of Wolfe Island dated 8 Jan. 1866 ; who sold to David Grey of Kingston 2 July 1867. On the very same day the Regstry goes through a number of contracts, suggesting they could have been finalized in the preceding weeks, ending up with Thomas Dunn, grocer, and John Dunn, inn-keeper, both of Kingston as being co-owners with 32 shares each..
- Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON), 17 Aug 1868 : A Loaded Schooner Without a Crew – sch. Red Rover found off Presque Isle by sch. Marie Annette, loaded with cordwood but no sign of crew.