Saint
John Ships and Their
Builders by Esther Clark Wright. An excellent
reference to learn of the men, their families and the companies who
built
ships in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
The basic work on the 19th century
ships and shipbuilders of Saint John, New Brunswick, which was among
the leading ports and shipbuilding centers on the Atlantic coast of
North America. Contains a list and index of vessels and
separate indexes of places and persons.229
pages 6 x 9
. A very informative publication.
A partial list of builders: Anderson, Appleby, Briggs,
Brown, Craft,
Crooker, Cruickshank, Doherty, Drake, Dunn, Dyer, Ellis,
Fisher,
Floyd, Fraser, Gass, Gilbert, Hatheway, Haws, Heales,
Hilyard,
Howard, Irvine, Irvine, Jenkins, Johnston, Keltie, King,
Lawton,
Lynch, Mahoney, McDonald, McFee,
McGuiggan McIntosh, McKenzie,
McLachlan. McLellan, McLeod, McMoran,
McWilliams, Merritt, Nevins,
Olive, Owens, Payne, Pettingell, Pittfield, Potts, Rankin, Ring,
Roberts, Robertson, Rowan, Ruddock, Sayre, Scammel, Sime, Smith,
Sorrell, Stackhouse, Stewart, Storm, Sulis, Thomson, Tucker,
Wells, and
Wright.
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In 1816, George Thomson, master of the brig ‘Jessie’ brought a load of
potatoes to Saint John. Due to the unusual cold wet weather, crops were
not growing in New Brunswick. Thomson belonged to a family of
shipowners and shipbuilders of Dumfries and he may have been impressed
with the amount of shipbuilding materials available in New Brunswick as
he began to build ships at L’Etang, a small harbour in the parish of
St. George, Charlotte County. * * * John McMorran and James Dunn had
been building ships at Dorchester for a few years before they came to
Saint John. * * * The Lawtons, who came as Loyalists in 1783 had an
early connection with shipbuilding. Isaac Lawton, a Quaker from
Philadelphia, married the daughter of Samuel Cranston, the Governor of
Rhode Island. * * * John Haws was born in Scotland but grew up in
Halifax, Nova Scotia and received his training as a shipwright in the
naval dockyard there. He came in 1819 to Portland (now part of Saint
John) and married Calista, the youngest daughter of Richard Calvert. *
* * Thomas Hilyard married Matilda Dwyer. His first ship was the
‘Monteagle’ registered early in 1852. * * *This book holds information
on the basic work on the 19th century ships and shipbuilders of Saint
John, New Brunswick, which was among the leading ports and shipbuilding
centers on the Atlantic coast of North America. List and index of
vessels and separate indexes of places and persons. A partial list of
builders: Anderson, Appleby, Briggs, Brown, Craft, Crooker,
Cruickshank, Doherty, Drake, Dunn, Dyer, Ellis, Fisher,
Floyd, Fraser, Gass, Gilbert, Hatheway, Haws, Heales,
Hilyard, Howard, Irvine, Irvine, Jenkins, Johnston,
Keltie, King, Lawton, Lynch, Mahoney, McDonald,
McFee, McGuiggan McIntosh, McKenzie, McLachlan.
McLellan, McLeod, McMoran, McWilliams, Merritt,
Nevins, Olive, Owens, Payne, Pettingell, Pittfield, Potts,
Rankin, Ring, Roberts, Robertson, Rowan, Ruddock, Sayre, Scammel, Sime,
Smith, Sorrell, Stackhouse, Stewart, Storm, Sulis, Thomson,
Tucker, Wells, Wright.