1863
Superior Captain Kennedy for Maddock"Harbor Grace Standard and Conception Bay Advertiser"
May 7, 1862
The following is a list of Sealing vessels arrived here up
to this date
RIDLEY & SONS
Wave, PIKE 78 seals
Superior, KENNEDY 851
Mary, LEWIS, clean -manus
Echo, PIKE 1,325
Louisa, BARTLETT 663
Medora, MURPHY 3,871
Rusina, BENSON 234
Robert Arthur, DAVIS, 629
William, COURAGE, 19
Orient, TAYLOR, 370
Harriet-Ridley, JOYCE 243
Union, PIKE 800
Adamant, ALCOCK 1,950
Thomas Ridley, THISTLE,
Elizabeth & William, STEPHENSON
PUNTON & MUNN
Curlew, O'NEIL 3,313
Commissary, NOEL 1,340
Union, PARSONS, 700
Dash, SMART 17 manus.
Three Sisters, FACEY 28
United Brothers, FITZGERALD
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1863
Superior Captain Kennedy for Maddock
1866 Kennedy Superior from Carbonear outfitted by Maddock
1867 Newspaper tidbit
March 13, 1867, the 138 ton vessel Superior with 49 men supplied by J & R MADDOCK was cleared for the seal fishery out of Carbonear.
The Superior, KENNEDY, master, belonging to the firm of J. & R. MADDOCK of Carbonear was lost some days since near the Funk Island, her crew and seals (about 300) were brought in by a schooner from Green Bay.
Source
archived newspaper transriptions Harbor Grace Standard & Conception Bay
Advertiser
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