For Sale - The Ships of St Martins - packed with information on shipbuilding in the village of St. Martins on the south coast of New Brunswick between 1800 and 1899 when St. Martins was an important port for the building of wooden ships. A ten-page historical outline is followed by a two-page resume in French and a twenty-seven page schedule of vessels under the following headings: Name, Rigging, Tonnage, Builder, and Disposal (or facts known concerning the ship's career). Also map, graph, and bibliography. Black & white illustrations include a page showing the differences in rigging among ships, barques, brigs, barquentines, brigantines, schooners, and sloops.

"The Ships of St. Martins" by Esther Clark Wright

An out-of-print and hard-to-find small book packed with information on shipbuilding in the village of St. Martins on the south coast of New Brunswick between 1800 and 1899 when St. Martins was an important port for the building of wooden ships. A ten-page historical outline is followed by a two-page resume in French and a twenty-seven page schedule of vessels under the following headings: Name, Rigging, Tonnage, Builder, and Disposal (or facts known concerning the ship's career). Also map, graph, and bibliography. Black & white illustrations include a page showing the differences in rigging among ships, barques, brigs, barquentines, brigantines, schooners, and sloops. SURNAMES found in the column on builders: Anderson, Berry, Bishop, Black, Bradshaw, Brown, Burr, Carson, Chapman, Compton, Coonan, Crandall, Cronk, Davidson, DeLong, Desmond, Duncan, Ellis, Evans, Follett, Foster, Fownes, Giffin, Hodgkins, Ingram, Kelly Kennedy, Lamb, LeFurgey, LeHuquet, MacLean, Mahony, Mallory, Mallowaney, Marchbank, Marks, Marr, Masters, McCumber, McKenzie, McLean, McLeod, McQuiston, Melvin, Moran, Morgan, Mosher, Muir, Newcomb, Nugent, Osbourne, Parker, Parks, Pattison, Price, Richards, Rourke, Scott, Simond, Smith, Stevens, Steves, Swim, Troop, Tufts, Vail, Vaughan, Walter, Washburn, and Wishart. A 1978 reprint of 1974 publication. Saddle-stitched booklet of 47 pages.

Hard To Find Book

Book # 8230 $59.95 Canadian currency plus shipping of $8.00 within North America. Very good condition - almost as new for a book reprinted in 1978. No markings - cover shows only minor handling wear

Book # 808 $69.95 Canadian currency plus shipping of $8.00 within North America.