Funnily enough Piers, it had crossed my mind it maybe something to do with the Budget. though it appears as if she had been registered for a certain time as Bridget. bridget/Budget/Colombo her number is 37096. Something can be done with that. edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Piers Smith-Cresswell" <piers@ps-c.demon.co.uk> To: <jduerkop@cogeco.ca>; "'alex borgogno'" <alex442@virgilio.it>; <mariners-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [MAR] Colombo/Bridget/Budget > Perhaps that's the answer. > > BRIDGET's building costs overran badly and the builders, unable to get any > more money out of the buyer, "misread" the name on the contract (Dubord > and > his men were presumably French speakers, and would have been more familiar > with the French form of the name, BRIGITTE) and launched her as BUDGET in > revenge.... > > Pure speculation, of course.... ;-) > > > Cheers > Piers > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mariners-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:mariners-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of jduerkop@cogeco.ca > Sent: 27 July 2011 04:33 > To: alex borgogno; mariners-l@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MAR] Colombo/Bridget > > The translated transcript of the contracts to build the ship at Pointe aux > Trembles are quite clear. Her name was to be BRIDGET. The translation > was > done by Parks Canada. Incidentally, Mr. Angers made a profit of 37 > pounds, > 14 shillings and 1 pence in building her. That was a profit of less than 2 > %. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >