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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Parker, John P. Sails of the Maritimes: the story of the three-and four-masted cargo schooners of Atlantic Canada (Great Britain: Hazel Watson & Viney LTD, 1960), 147.
- ↑ Nova Scotia Archives, "Schooners: Workhorses of the Sea," copyright 2013. http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/schooners/archives.asp?ID=77 Archived 2006-12-04 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 13 February 2013).
- ↑ Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Niels Jannasch Library, file 24400-60: Governor Parr, New York Maritime Registers.
