| Name of Vessel | WILD BRIAR |
| Type of Vessel | Wooden schooner |
| Owner Name(s) and Residence | Walter B. Grieve, Merchant, St. John’s (1900 Mercantile Navy List) |
| Owner Name(s) and Residence | Samuel Drover, Hodge’s Cove |
| Official Number(s) | 108929 |
| Year of Construction | 1898 |
| Place of Construction | Random Sound |
| Number of Decks | 1 |
| Number of Masts | 2 |
| Length | 49 feet |
| Width | 16 feet |
| Depth | 6 feet |
| Gross Tonnage | 23 |
| Net Tonnage | 22 |
| Registered Tonnage | 23 |
| Registered Year | 1898 |
| Port of Registry | St. John’s, Newfoundland |
| Remarks | Broken Up |
| Registry Closed | June 12, 1907 |
The Evening Herald, St. John’s, Newfoundland, November 26, 1900.
At Hodge’s Cove, T.B., a young lad named Wilcox, contracted a cold last week, but was not bodily ill. Thursday morning as he was about to go out he was seized with a fit of coughing and was suddenly deprived of speech, which he has not since regained. His father, Moses Wilcox, of the schr. ‘Wild Briar,’ yesterday received word that he was dying, and leaves by train today for home. All the children about Hodge’s Cove have been afflicted with coughing which has been epidemic this fall, and which reaches such an acute stage that they vomit blood.