Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.
 
  ALSO, 
      The timber cargo, shipped on board, consisting of:  
   116 pieces oak timber, 3480 feet.    
   283 pieces pine timber, 11520 feet.    
   500 planks, 3960 feet.    
   280 planks, 2760 feet.    
  5852 staves,      
   162 lath wood.      
 LIKEWISE,  
      1 10-inch cable, about 120 fathoms.
    2 7-inch hawsers, about 120 fathoms.
    4 sails, cabin stores, a quantity of ropes, blocks, provisions, &c. &c. which were saved from said wreck, and left on shore. Captain Wilson will give every information respecting the state of the vessel and cargo, when he left her, by applying to him, at Messrs. Patterson & Co.'s compting house.		  
      Jones & White,  
      Auctioneers & Brokers.  
  Quebec, 22nd November 1810.      
 
 
Quebec Gazette #2383 29/11/1810 Page 3, Col. 2C.
 
 SALE BY AUCTION.
For the benefit of the concerned.		 
      On Saturday the 1st of December, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the Neptune tavern, lower town, the hull, masts and yards of the ship Richard, Joseph Castle, master, as she now lays stranded on the rocks on the south side of the River Saint Lawrence. Also the cargo of said vessel, containing per bill of lading, viz:  
  215  pieces containing 6300 feet oak timber,  
  114  pieces containing 5500 feet pine timber,  
  14776  pieces staves, equal to 11 M. standard,  
  554  pieces 2˝ inch pine planks,  
  71  pairs ash oars.  
  AND 
      On Thursday next, the 6th December, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely, all the standing and running rigging, sails and other materials, saved from the wreck of the above vessel. Sale to take place at the Neptune Inn. The said materials may be viewed, any day previous to the sale, by applying to Captain Castle at New Liverpool.  
    George  & William Hamilton,  
      Agents for the underwriters.  
  Quebec, 28th November, 1810.      
 
 
Quebec Gazette #2384 06/12/1810 Page 2, Col. 4T.
 
 Port of Quebec 
  Inwards this season:  627  
  Outwards:  661  
 
    The above are exclusive on the river craft. Almost all of the vessels are square rigged, and many of them from five to six hundred tons.		  
 
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