AGENORIA (1855)
The British ship AGENORIA (Official No. 35,009, signal code letters RMTV) was built according to a Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey at St. John, New Brunswick in 1855, and was registered at Liverpool (last surveyed in June 1868). 1023 tons; 173 x 36.7 x 23 feet (length x beam x depth of hold).
Sources: Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston, Wallace Ship List, quoting Frederick William Wallace, Record of Canadian shipping; a list of squarerigged vessels, mainly 500 tons and over, built in the Eastern Provinces of British North America from the year 1786 to 1920 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1929); see also Canadian Ship Information Database, No. 35009, quoting National Archives of Canada, RG 42, Vol. 1350 (original Vol. 139 = microfilm reel C-387), page 70; the Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey is reproduced on Public Archives of Canada, microfilm reel A-439, Survey 181
[01 Jun 2000]