*new* for TheShipsList website http://www.theshipslist.com/ All the new and updated files and databases have been placed on their own page(s) Find them on the front page in between the big arrows --------------> <--------------- At the bottom of each of these pages I have placed links named " previous month " and " next month " so you are able to navigate back and forth between the monthly *new & updated* pages, as I only keep three months of *new* page links on the Home page. New for August 2006 is . . . o Arrivals: o Ships to Quebec 1826 (completed) Finally I have completed the 1826 newspaper extractions (four pages). I love getting stuck into the newspapers as you never know what you might read, eg. in September, Hurricane season of course, strange marriages, tragic deaths, really odd accidents with ships . . "The bark Granicus, Wilkie, from Cork, lying at J.S. Cambell's [sic] Cove, fell over on her broadside" . . strange expressions (even later for the same ship with an error recorded in her rigging) "The brig Granicus, hence the 2nd inst. for Cork, returned on Saturday last, being too crank to carry sail." and yet another "The Dalusia, (new brig) Norton, hence 14th August for London, has put back to Kamouraska, being too crank to proceed to sea. It is expected she will be able to proceed on her voyage about the end of the week." . . . what does "too crank" mean I wonder ? Also as I'd mentioned to a colleague . . . I was a little surprised to read about the harsh sentencing . . eg. a schoolmaster fined 20 pounds for leaving his window shutters open . . no explanation !! but the worst was an execution for theft from the poor box at the Roman Catholic church. Maybe I should have included those as well, but transcribing a whole year of pages takes such a long time. o Fleets new: o Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft Kosmos - DDG Kosmos Another great Fleet for TheShipsList website, submitted by Henk Jungerius. Henk has been a great help to Ted and I and has sent yet another, for Horn Line, which is not ready to upload yet, so It will appear in September. o Passengers: o Lady Sherbrooke - 1st trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 30th April 1826 o Lady Sherbrooke - 2nd trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 6th May 1826 o Lady Sherbrooke - 3rd trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 13th May 1826 o Lady Sherbrooke - 4th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 20th May 1826 o Lady Sherbrooke - 5th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 27th May 1826 o Lady Sherbrooke - 6th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 3rd June 1826 I have now returned to the year 1826 with the Lady Sherbrooke steamboat, to go with the 30 New Swiftsure trips already transcribed for that year. After Lady Sherbrooke will come the Quebec, Chambly and finally the Waterloo. The Waterloo is new to the St. Lawrence Steamboat Company, but not a new boat, formerly called "Le Canadien," built by Jonathan Gorham for Jean-Moïse Raymond, in 1825. I know I've mentioned that the "St. Lawrence Steamboat Company" was not the only company carrying emigrants from Quebec to Montreal, but it is the only one for which I have found these priceless records. A news item I found at the end of the 1826 navigation season, names all the boats in service that year. STEAM BOATS.— The Edmond Henry, the last boat in port, repaired to her winter quarters, Boucherville, on Monday, where the Laprairie and the St. Lawrence Steam-boat Company's boats, Quebec, New Swiftsure, Waterloo, Chambly, Malsham and Lady Sherbrooke are laid up. The latter boat has had her engine taken out, which with one of similar power, now making by Mr. Ward, will be put into the new boat John Molson, now building by Mr. Farrington, which will be ready for launching on the opening of navigation. The Hercules and Richelieu winter at Sorel ; the Lady of the Lake, at Bout de Lisle ; the Montreal at La Tortue. This boat will in the course of the winter, undergo a thorough repair ; be made much larger, and will ply during the navigation of 1827, between Montreal and Longueil. The William Annesley, winters in the Lachine Canal. This boat is also to undergo a thorough repair ; and will during the ensuing summer, ply between Point Fortune and Hull.— Gazette Please share this *new* for TheShipsList website email, with any other list to which you belong if you think it might be of interest or value to those list members (in other words, on-topic). Enjoy ! Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/