Glooscap (ship)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Crew of the British sailing vessel GLOOSCAP assembled on the deck, Washington, ca 1904 (HESTER 274).jpeg }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Canada |Ship flag=60px |Ship name=Glooscap |Name sake=Glooscap, spiritual figure of the Mi'kmaq people |Ship owner= |Ship operator= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Spencers Island Company, Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=August 5, 1891 |Ship completed= |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship out of service= |Ship registry=Parrsboro, Nova Scotia |Ship identification=*Code Letters JCNL
|Ship fate=Converted to Gypsum barge 1914 |Ship notes=Official Number 100108 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship tonnage=1721 gross tons |Ship displacement= |Ship length={{convert|238|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|42.9|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship depth=23.9 ft |Ship decks=2 |Ship ice class= |Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship |Ship power= |Ship propulsion=Sail |Ship speed= |Ship capacity= |Ship crew= |Ship notes=Specifications from Glooscap 1914 Registry Form[http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/brigsbarqs/archives.asp?ID=229&Language= Glooscap Registry Form, 1914, Official Number 100108, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management] }} |
Glooscap was a full-rigged sailing ship built in 1891 at Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia in the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy. The ship was named after Glooscap, the spiritual hero figure of the Mi'kmaq people. Glooscap was the culmination of several decades of large-scale ship building in the small village of Spencers Island. She was the last square rigger built along the Parrsboro Shore and the largest ship ever built in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.Stanley Spicer Sails of Fundy: The Schooners and Square-riggers of the Parrsboro Shore (Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press, 1984), p. 15 She circled the world in her first year of operation, carrying freight to Liverpool, Cape Town, Australia, and New York City. She made frequent subsequent voyages to the Pacific. Although built in the twilight period of the Age of Sail, Glooscap earned good profits for her owners shipping freight around the world for two decades under the command of two noted captains, the brothers George T. Spicer and Dewis Spicer of Spencers Island. Glooscap was converted to a gypsum barge in 1914. The ship is featured in exhibits at the lighthouse museum in Spencer's Island and at the Age of Sail Heritage Centre in Port Greville.
References
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- Sailing Ships of the Maritime Charles Armour and Thomas Lackey (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975)
External links
- [https://archives.novascotia.ca/brigsbarqs/archives/?ID=42&Language= Photograph of Glooscap awaiting launch at Spencers Island in 1891]
- [https://archives.novascotia.ca/brigsbarqs/results/?Search=Spicer&SearchList1=all Virtual Collection of photographs and documents about the ship Glooscap at the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management]
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Category:Maritime history of Canada
Category:Transport in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
Category:Individual sailing vessels
Category:Ships built in Nova Scotia
Category:Victorian-era merchant ships of Canada