PROWL

Name of Vessel  Prowl
Type of Vessel  schooner
Owner Name(s) and Residence 1) Stephen Smith, Hodge’s Cove
2) Will Smith, Hodge’s Cove
3) Edward Spurrell, Butter Cove
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Year of Construction 1892
Place of Construction Random, Trinity Bay
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Evening Herald, May 27, 1892 – A splendid new schooner has just been added by Messrs. A. Goodrldge & Sons to their Labrador fleet. She is called the Prowl, and was built last winter at Random, Trinity Bay, by Stephen Smith, who also commands her; and this bears out the old adage regarding our fishermen, “that they could cut the wood out of which their vessels are constructed, could build them and sail them, and catch big voyages of fish with them.” She is fitted and equipped in the most complete manner, and is a most creditable specimen of this country’s construction. Though not yet surveyed, she is expected to measure about forty-five tons, and when passed by the Lloyds’ Surveyor and the regular bounty given will sail with the necessary supplies to prosecute the Labrador fishery.

Evening Telegram – September 15, 1908 – The schr. Prowl, John Smith, master, belonging to Hodge’s Cove, Random, T.B., put in port on Thursday evening from Labrador with a full load of fish.

Evening Telegram, July 4, 1916 – Labrador Sailings – the following schooners left Trinity last week for the Labrador:- H.J. Bailey, Majestic, Seven Brothers, British Empire, Twilight, Garnet, Prowl, Freda D, Edith May, St. Joseph, Willie Martin, and Beatrice.