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FIG. i8. "Little Minnie", two-masted topsail schooner, built 1866 at Padstow on 

 the north coast of Cornwall. Finally belonging to J. Stephens of Fowey. 



Dimensions: 82.0 ft x 21.2 ft x 10.2 ft. Tonnage: 98 net register. 



She was in the Newfoundland trade and was lost in the ice off the island and the 

 captain was killed, prior to 1899. 



Published by due permission of Mr. H. Oliver Hill, through Mr. David R. Mac- 

 Gregor, London. 



from those banks of gravel close inside the Taw-Torridge Bar [i.e. 'The Crow'; 

 vide below, p. 178]. Barges came alongside (30 tons each) [vide fig. 25] to give it 

 to us. This gravel is in great demand by builders to make mortar, so when we got to 

 St. John's 23 days later, the gravel was all taken away at the quay in carts." 



Captain J. R. Pile, aged 65, coasting trade (not Newfoundland): "When I was a 

 boy in a ketch we were over at Clonakilty [south of Cork, Ireland] and to get ballast 

 we had to row about the harbour in the ship's boat and pick up stones on the 

 beaches." 



Mr. Mathews informs me that Irish ports, such as Waterford, Limerick, and 

 Youghal in Cork, were sometimes called at by Poole vessels on their way to New- 



