Harry Piers: Museum Maker

Notes from Piers Accession Book: Half Block Model of Modern Spoon-bowed Fishing Schooner, "Elva Blanche"; port of registry, Lunenburg, N.S.  Scale 3/8 inch = 1 foot. Official No. of schooner, 126,116.  Registered tonnage, 79 tons.  Length over-all, 100 feet.  Registered length, 93 8/10 feet.  Length at load-water-line, about 79 ft. 6 ins.  Breadth, 25 0/10 feet.  Registered depth, 9 3/10 feet.  Greatest draught, aft, about 8 ft. 3 ins. Abram Ernst, managing owner of the "Elva Blanche" gives the following particulars of the vessel: - (Vid. his brother of 28 May 1917); designed by Isiah H. Wagner; and built in 1908, by J. Ernst & Son, at Mahone Bay, Lun. Co., N.S.  (continued...)

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Date Accessioned: 22 May 1917

Reference: Harry Piers number 4507  Nova Scotia Museum Marine History Collection, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic