"Truman Smith" wrote in message
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Unfortunately my information comes from a website and not original
documents. I'm begining think to the route was from Canada to River Clyde
in Scotland.

Thanks for the replies, everyone.
-Truman

"Pete Verdon" d wrote
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Bert Olton wrote:
Truman Smith wrote:

It appears to have been a commerial shipping port in the late 1800's.
Specifically I'm researching a cargo ship voyage in 1893 from Miriuchi
to
Clyde (Port Clyde, Maine, USA?) passing by the North Ireland coast
with
timber lathes as cargo.

It looks to me like there may be a miss spelling involved. There is a
city in New Brunswick, Canada named Miramichi, which, with a load of
timber lathes, would make sense.

Are we talking about "timber laths" - thin strips of wood - or "timber
lathes" - machine tools? I'd assumed the former, hence the suggestion of
Indonesia in my previous post, but if the ship was carrying tools it's
highly unlikely to have come from the far east and Bert may well be
right.
(He may well be right if it's timber too, of course!)

Pete

The most likely explanation to me would be a cargo of timber laths from
Canada to the River Clyde in Scotland. There were massive timberyards at
Whiteinch in Glasgow, for example. I'd be a bit surprised if the Scots were
importing lathes, as they led the world in machine engineering.

I have an old British nautical almanac from about 1895, so if you want more
details for a particular port of things like harbour dues, dock facilities,
navigation marks etc I might be able to help.

Duncan