Anchor, Admiralty, 19th century (1800's)
Description : 02 Apr, 2023
Old fisherman's (admiralty) anchor in excellent shape found in Todd’s Cove on the Washademoak Lake in Cambridge-Narrows, New Brunswick. The anchor has been stored in a cool and dry environment for more than 20 years now. Specifications: Shank- 35" Stock- 38.5” Width from fluke to fluke- 19" Typical use for this naturally-antiqued mid weight beauty was for transportation merce throughout the steamboat era. In the 1850s, there were seven or eight boats running, serving all munities in the watershed. The normal route was from Saint John to Coles Island, up one day and down the next. For about a century, boats carried on this trade from spring break-up until freeze-up in the fall. This was how people traveled to and from the city (from the Washademoak, this tended to be Saint John). This was how mail was carried, and farm produce was shipped to the market and grocers in Saint John almost every day in summer. Local storekeepers ordered their supplies “e up on the boat”, the local physician had his medicines sent by boat, and someone building a house might have bricks and lime for the mortar sent this way. Also, these boats had wood-fired boilers and local men often made money supplying wood to the panies. The wharves at Cambridge, Humphrey’s and Mott’s are a substantial part of this heritage and serve as strong material evidence of an age long past.
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