July 27, 1887, 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.
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Transcribed by Emily Seward, July 2021
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