PRIMROSE

 

Name of Vessel PRIMROSE
Type of Vessel  Schooner
Owner Name(s) and Residence Bernard Martin, Heart’s Ease (1900 Mercantile Navy List)
Official Number(s) 101339  /  S895015
Year of Construction 1894
Place of Construction Heart’s Ease
Number of Decks 1
Number of Masts 2
Length 48 feet
Width 16 feet
Depth 6 feet
Gross Tonnage 22
Net Tonnage 21
Registered Tonnage 22
Registered Year 1895
Port of Registry St. John’s, Newfoundland
Remarks
Registry Closed

 

Name of Vessel PRIMROSE
Type of Vessel  Schooner
Owner Name(s) and Residence Robert G. Rendell, St. John’s (1910, 1915, 1920, 1930 and 1940 Mercantile Navy List)
Official Number(s) 101339  /  S895015
Year of Construction 1894
Place of Construction Heart’s Ease
Number of Decks 1
Number of Masts 2
Length 48 feet
Width 16 feet
Depth 6 feet
Gross Tonnage 24
Net Tonnage
Registered Tonnage
Registered Year 1904
Port of Registry St. John’s, Newfoundland
Remarks Rebuilt in 1904. Tonnage change to 24
Registry Closed November 23, 1951

The Evening Telegram, December 3, 1898 – The schooner Primrose, Captain Bernard Martin, has arrived from Heart’s Ease with a cargo of fish, lumber, lobsters, herring, after a fine passage. She reports a good sign of fish in Trinity Bay. but the weather is such that no boat could attempt to get out.