Banking schooner
banking The average Banking schooner was eighty to one hundred twenty feet in length and carried ten dories and twenty- xx four men . . . [the catch] was split and salted on board the vessel, and was washed in the harbour upon arrival in Grand Bank. When the weather was favourable the fish was taken...
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Language: | English |
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1972
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Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/4775 |
Summary: | banking The average Banking schooner was eighty to one hundred twenty feet in length and carried ten dories and twenty- xx four men . . . [the catch] was split and salted on board the vessel, and was washed in the harbour upon arrival in Grand Bank. When the weather was favourable the fish was taken by cart to the "beaches," which were really level fields along the shore covered with sma ll round rocks taken from rocky beaches. DNE-cit W. J. KIRWIN JAN 1972 1972 JH JAN 1972 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I |
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