QUEEN VICTORIA

 

Name of Vessel QUEEN VICTORIA
Type of Vessel Wooden schooner
Owner Name(s) and Residence Edmund Seward, Gooseberry Cove (1890 and 1900 Mercantile Navy List)
Official Number(s) 084785  /  S882028
Year of Construction 1882
Place of Construction Gooseberry Cove
Number of Decks 1
Number of Masts 2
Length 58 feet
Width 20 feet
Depth  
Gross Tonnage 48
Net Tonnage 45
Registered Tonnage  
Registered Year 1882
Port of Registry St. John’s, Newfoundland
Remarks Broken up in Gooseberry Cove
Registry Closed November 12, 1903

 

Evening Telegram 1887-07-27, Page 4

A JUBILEE GRAND BANK TRIP.

The good schooner Queen Victoria, Captain Seward, of Gooseberry Cove, Trinity Bay, arrived here on Sunday last from the Grand Bank with the bumper trip of five hundred and fifty (550) qtls., equivalent to dry. A hundred and forty of these were without salt, so plentiful did this vessel find codfish. Skipper Seward says that the staple was so abundant when he cast anchor, he could have filled the Great Eastern. This is his first season on the Banks, and, although he knows nothing of navigation, yet in the densest fog be knows how to grope along and find good spots for fishing when skilled navigators would be sadly at fault. The schooner is having her voyage cured at home, and as she sailed down this harbor yesterday she was so deep in the water, her tonnage being little over fifty, that her name on the stern was barely above the surface. It is needless to say that we bear testimony with pleasure to this success of the Queen Victoria, her captain and crew, and that the quantity of fish named taken in a single trip, entitles her to the honor of having made the Jubilee trip of the season.