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From: "Vera Short" <>
Subject: Re: [NFLD-LAB] Shipowners/schooner builders
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:56:19 -0600

> Just wondering when you have a minute could you look up the WATKINS
> surname and see if they built any schooners or were captains.



Dear Helen HEAD Bossley

Robert Watkins, Twillingate, farmer/planter, owner of "Venus" schooner built
in 1824 closed in St Johns in 1825 (registered de novo)

Robert Watkins, Carters Cove farmer/planter, owner of 'SULTANA' built in
1834 closed in 1837 in St. John's (registered de novo)

William Watkins, Preston, NS trader/dealer, owner of "Venus" schooner built
in 1856 closed in Port Hawkesbury in 1868 (transferred to new port)

David E Watkins, Barrington NS, mariner, owner of "Hazel" Sloop built in
1906 closed in 1937 (no longer exist/no more information)

That's it for owners.

William Watkins, age 38 Halifax, master of 'IDA'
William Watkins, age 32, Halifax, master of "Fanny M Carvill"
William Watkins, age 40, Nova Scotia, master of "Bella Mudge"

That's it for masters.

Vera Short

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