ARGOSY

 

Name of Vessel ARGOSY
Type of Vessel Wooden Schooner
Owner Name(s) and Residence James Baird, Merchant, St. John’s (1890 and 1900 Mercantile Navy Lists)
Owner Name(s) and Residence Moses Smith, Random Sound
Official Number(s) 90247
Year of Construction 1885
Place of Construction Random Sound
Number of Decks  1
Number of Masts  2
Length  48 feet
Width  16 feet
Depth  7 feet
Gross Tonnage 28
Net Tonnage 27
Registered Tonnage  
Registered Year 1885
Port of Registry St. John’s, Newfoundland
Remarks Broken up
Registry Closed May 14, 1901

Evening Telegram, October 21, 1892 – From Random.- Captain Smith, in the schooner Argosy, is her from Random, Trinity Bay, with 14,000 bricks. Captain Smith received the first impressions of the recent storm at Cape St. Francis, and ran up to St. John’s with a nine knot breeze.