Originally Posted by
jaydee2u
I have also found out that a great aunt of mine launched a ship. We have found a ceremonial axe in a hardwood case, the axe inscribed:
"SHIP WESTGATE launched by EVA WILSON Jan 31st 1885 : R & J EVANS Ship-builders LIVERPOOL : Chadwick & Prichard Managing Owners"
She was one of FRANK CAMPBELL WILSON'S older siblings, and cannot have been more than a girl at the time.
WestGate abandoned off Nova Scotia in 1920. Her masts were cut down by the crew to prevent her capsizing after the ship's cargo of coal shifted at sea.
NY Times:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...B266838B639EDE
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All along the river frontage of the South end, from Stanhope street to where Herculaneum dock now is where the shipyards were located. Not far Wilson's Mill.
Evans would have been around where Brunswick Dock is now. The shipyards were forced to quit as the Dock Board only gave them short leases wanting the space to expand the docks for cargo unloarding and loading. The docks there today replaced the shipyards. One yard is still left, repairing small boats at Brunswick Dock.
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