"Truman Smith" <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>
> Unfortunately my information comes from a website and not original
> do***ents. I'm begining think to the route was from Canada to River
Clyde
> in Scotland.
>
> Thanks for the replies, everyone.
> -Truman
>
> "Pete Verdon" <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
in
> message news:48smcsFlgenaU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Bert Olton wrote:
> >> Truman Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>> It appears to have been a commerial ****pping ****t in the late
1800's.
> >>> Specifically I'm researching a cargo ****p voyage in 1893 from
Miriuchi
> >>> to
> >>> Clyde (****t Clyde, Maine, USA?) passing by the North Ireland coast
with
> >>> timber lathes as cargo.
> >
> >> It looks to me like there may be a miss spelling involved. There is
a
> >> city in New Brunswick, Canada named Miramichi, which, with a load of
> >> timber lathes, would make sense.
> >
> > Are we talking about "timber laths" - thin strips of wood - or "timber
> > lathes" - machine tools? I'd assumed the former, hence the suggestion
of
> > Indonesia in my previous post, but if the ****p was carrying tools it's
> > highly unlikely to have come from the far east and Bert may well be
right.
> > (He may well be right if it's timber too, of course!)
> >
> > Pete
The most likely explanation to me would be a cargo of timber laths from
Canada to the River Clyde in Scotland. There were massive timberyards at
Whiteinch in Glasgow, for example. I'd be a bit surprised if the Scots
were
im****ting lathes, as they led the world in machine engineering.
I have an old British nautical almanac from about 1895, so if you want
more
details for a particular ****t of things like harbour dues, dock
facilities,
navigation marks etc I might be able to help.
Duncan
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