Clio (barque)
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Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...
(1838-1866) built of black birch, pine and oak at Granville
Granville
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, Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
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, (weight: 473 tons).
She was registered at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
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on completion. For many years she crossed back and forth over the Atlantic, bringing timber from Quebec, Canada which was then sailed to Padstow, Cornwall. In Cornwall she was loaded with passengers who then sailed back to Canada. Many of these passengers were Cornish people
Cornish people
The Cornish are a people associated with Cornwall, a county and Duchy in the south-west of the United Kingdom that is seen in some respects as distinct from England, having more in common with the other Celtic parts of the United Kingdom such as Wales, as well as with other Celtic nations in Europe...
emigrating to the United States.
History
First, she was sold to Avery, the well-established PadstowPadstow
Padstow is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town is situated on the west bank of the River Camel estuary approximately five miles northwest of Wadebridge, ten miles northwest of Bodmin and ten miles northeast of Newquay...
merchant house. As a brand new deep water square rigger owned by Padstow, a full Lloyd's
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surveying port, trading from Padstow to Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...
and other North American ports taking substantial numbers of emigrants and returning with prime timber for Padstow's expanding shipyards in some ways she marks the zenith of Padstow shipping. At least two diaries exist describing the transatlantic journeys
Rawle and Easthorpe (master) took over from Avery and Brown (master) in 1845, until 185- when the problem of passing the Doom Bar
Doom Bar
The Doom Bar is a bank of sand at the estuary of the River Camel where it meets the Celtic Sea on Cornwall's north coast. It represents a significant hazard to shipping, and there have been many ships wrecked there through the centuries...
persuaded them that she was too big for Padstow. She carried on as a Quebec trader, sailing from Falmouth
Falmouth, Cornwall
Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....
and Plymouth
Plymouth
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and even from Gloucester
Gloucester
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. In 1865 J. Moore of Stonehouse, Devon was her owner, and her record ends with the note "Abandoned at Sea 3 July 1866".
Side information
In April/May 1855, the Clio sailed for Quebec. Her sister ships were the John, Siam and Oriental. The Captain of Clio was William Symons, the others being Edward Rawle (John), Charles Rawle (Siam) and Henry Tom (Oriental).The Rawles originated from Boscastle
Boscastle
Boscastle is a village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Forrabury and Minster. It is situated 14 miles south of Bude and 5 miles north-east of Tintagel....
, the others from Padstow. The Rawles were a ship-owning family. Joint owners (certainly of the John) were; Thomas Ham, 10 Prospect Street, Plymouth; William Williams, draper, of Padstow; Robert Williams Avery, ship owner, 3 Charles Place, Plymouth; Philip Rawle the Younger, ship owner, 37 Gibbon Street, Plymouth; Philip Rawle the Elder of Boscastle, ship owner, 2 Gibbon Street, Plymouth; James Moore, merchant clerk of Richmond Walk, Plymouth.
The 'John' sank in 1855 after it struck the Manacles Rock, off St Keverne
St Keverne
St Keverne is a civil parish and village on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom.The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 started in St Keverne. The leader of the rebellion Michael An Gof was a blacksmith from St Keverne and is commemorated by a statue in the village...
, on the coast of Cornwall, and more than one hundred and ninety passengers were drowned.
An advertisement dated 11 August 1848 reads The ship "Clio", Robert EASTHOPE, Commander, now at Padstow, will leave that place for Quebec with passengers the 15th inst. Apply to: The agent for Mevagissey, Mr. Joseph KITTO; For St. Austell, Mr. CHAPMAN, Porthpean; or at Mr. AVERY's Offices, Boscastle and Padstow.
Known sailings
The dates below were supplied, by Captain George Hogg of the National Maritime Museum CornwallNational Maritime Museum Cornwall
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.
The dates of Clio sailings from Padstow are as follows....
(WB) West Briton other dates from... (BPP) British Parliamentary Papers.
- 20 March 1840 (WB)
- 19 June 1840 (WB)
- 16 April 1841 (WB)
- 25 June 1841 (WB)
- 7 August 1841
- 22 April 1842 (WB)
- 24 June 1842 (WB)
- 12 August 1842
- 1 April 1843
- 1 June 1843
- 11 August 1843 (WB)
- 5 April 1844 from MalpasMalpas, CornwallMalpas is a riverside village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated two miles southeast of the city of Truro, on the banks of the Malpas Estuary of the Truro River and Tresillian River....
, Truro. (WB) - 23 April 1847 (WB)
- 3 April 1848 (see diary of Thomas Rundell)
- 11 August 1848 (WB)
- 4 April 1849 arrived Quebec May 1849 (see diary by John Gundry)
- 15 February 1850 (approx. from MalpasMalpas, CornwallMalpas is a riverside village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated two miles southeast of the city of Truro, on the banks of the Malpas Estuary of the Truro River and Tresillian River....
, Truro.) (WB) - ?? jun 1850 from Malpas, TruroTruroTruro is a city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The city is the centre for administration, leisure and retail in Cornwall, with a population recorded in the 2001 census of 17,431. Truro urban statistical area, which includes parts of surrounding parishes, has a 2001 census...
. (WB) - 15 April 1853 (Falmouth, CardiffCardiffCardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
, QuebecQuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
) (RCG)