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 %.