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in 1892, she was acquired by Robert
Gillespie Reid in 1901. Besides passenger and freight service, she engaged in sealing seasonally from 1901 until her loss on 6 April 1909. Badly damaged by ice, she was set on fire and abandoned to sink; 110 of her crew were picked up by the steamer
710:. In 1914 she was acquired by the Reid Newfoundland Company for passenger and freight service. She also engaged in sealing from 1912 to 1938; during the latter part of that period, her summer service was between Bonne Bay and Battle Harbour. Sold in 1941 to the
672:, Scotland. Launched on 10 March 1888, she was 180 feet long with a gross register tonnage of 760. A vessel of composite construction (iron frame with wood planking), she sailed from Glasgow on April 13, 1888, bound for St. John's on a charter to the
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and North Sydney. Launched on 12 August 1897, she was 237 feet (72 m) long and registered at 1,154 gross tons. This vessel was lost on March 24, 1911, on the Main-a-Dieu rocks, seven miles from
Louisburg, Nova Scotia; two lives were lost.
576:, the vessel served as a passenger and cargo ferry until going into layup in 1931. She was used as an auxiliary jail at St. John's from 29 October 1932 to 30 June 1933, after which she became a salt storage vessel. In 1936 she was sold to the
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to operate a mail and passenger service to those communities. These vessels became the lifeline to these communities and were depicted in many paintings and folk songs of the country, even long after it became a province of
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Glasgow by A. & J. Inglis in 1900. Launched on 14 August 1900, she was 167 feet (51 m) long and 439 gross register tons. The ship was lost on 17 November 1900 when she was wrecked at Twin Rocks in the
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was damaged beyond economic repair by heavy ice. Driven aground by a storm while idle at
Harbour Grace on 4 February 1967, the vessel was sold to Dominion Metals Salvage Company but was deemed to expensive to scrap. Left
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361:, Newfoundland and Hopedale, Labrador. Sold in 1948 to the Home Steamship Company, Ltd., she was lost when she broke her moorings on 18 November 1952, stranding at Jerseyman Harbour in
449:, England in 1913. Launched on 7 April 1913, she was 220 feet (67 m) long and 1,055 gross register tons. She began service in Newfoundland in 1913 for the Labrador route. In 1915
564:. and launched on 20 September 1881. She was and iron vessel of 783 gross register tons and 220 feet (67 m) long. Originally owned by William Sloan & Company of Glasgow,
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461:, she was acquired by Kyle Shipping Ltd. in 1961, reverting to her original name. While working as a sealer, in 1965
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