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Waterways
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.
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NY Times:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...B266838B639EDE
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.
Perhaps the ceremonial axe was marking the 1920 abandonment rather than the 1885 launching...
Doesn't an axe sound like a strange item to commemorate a ship's launching?
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