Job's Comforters
Job's Comforters The Jessy was a brigantine. The Fanny was a barquentine. They were the last of a fleet of square rigged small vessels owned by Job Brothers and Company, some seven in all and known among the boys who lived in the forecastles and climbed the yards as "Job's Comforters&...
| Format: | Manuscript |
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| Language: | English |
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1971
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/38057 |
| Summary: | Job's Comforters The Jessy was a brigantine. The Fanny was a barquentine. They were the last of a fleet of square rigged small vessels owned by Job Brothers and Company, some seven in all and known among the boys who lived in the forecastles and climbed the yards as "Job's Comforters". The had all been built in England in the latter quarter of the nineteenth century and were noble vessels defying the storms of the Atlantic year in and year out. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G. M. Story AUG 1971 JH AUG 1971 Not Used Not Used Withdrawn Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Fri 02 Oct 2015, stamped but not used |
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