January 30, 1896
Extensive Repairs to be done to the old “Jane Ainsley” – The old vessel Jane Ainsley, owned by Mr. Levi Frost, Harbor Grace, goes to Northern Bight, Trinity Bay, for a thorough overhauling and extensive repairs. There will be a lot of employment given on her. This vessel is one of the very few of the old scaling fleet. In 1873, when commanded by Capt. John Kennedy, of Crocker’s Cove, she brought in Capt. George Hartery and his crew of the large brig John B. Campbell, owned by Mr. W. J. S. Donnelly, Harbor Grace, which was abandoned south of Cape Spear, during a great storm on Sheelah’s night.
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October 6, 1896
Fish was scarce there, he tells us, except in the cases, too few, where schooners had done well on the French Shore. Some few had been fairly fished at Labrador. That splendid sample of the Newfoundland fisherman. Captain Edmund Seward, nothing daunted by ill-link earlier in the season, sailed in August for Labrador, and arrived home about September 15 with a full load.
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Transcribed by Wanda Garrett and Lester Green, September 2014; Last update March 2021
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