Calburga
Canadian barque
title: "Calburga" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["barques", "sailing-ships-of-canada", "maritime-history-of-canada", "tall-ships-of-canada", "individual-sailing-vessels", "ships-built-in-nova-scotia", "victorian-era-merchant-ships-of-canada", "1890-ships", "shipwrecks-of-wales"] description: "Canadian barque" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calburga" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Canadian barque ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox ship"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| display_title | ital |
| section1 | {{Infobox ship/career |
| name | Calburga |
| owner | Adam MacDougall |
| operator | W.D. Nelson |
| route | Halifax – Liverpool. |
| builder | Adam MacDougall |
| completed | 1890 |
| identification | |
| fate | Ran aground on November 13, 1915 |
| section2 | {{Infobox ship/characteristics |
| tonnage | |
| length | 64.008 m |
| beam | 11.94 m |
| height | 7.07 m |
| sail_plan | Square rig |
| crew | 14 |
| notes | Last Canadian-built square-rigger of large tonnage left that was still registered in Canada. |
| :: |
|display_title=ital |section1={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |name= Calburga |owner=Adam MacDougall |operator=W.D. Nelson |route=Halifax – Liverpool. |builder=Adam MacDougall |completed=1890 |identification= |fate= Ran aground on November 13, 1915
|section2={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |class= |tonnage= |displacement= |length=64.008 m |beam=11.94 m |height=7.07 m |depth= |decks= |deck_clearance= |ramps= |sail_plan=Square rig |power= |propulsion= |speed= |capacity= |crew=14 |notes=Last Canadian-built square-rigger of large tonnage left that was still registered in Canada. Calburga was a Canadian barque, the last Canadian-built square-rigger of large tonnage. She was built in 1890 at South Maitland, Nova Scotia by local shipbuilder, Adams MacDougall. Calburga was a spruce built vessel, iron and copper fastened, and equipped with three masts. Calburga boasted luxuries such as a windmill pump installed in 1913 to keep free of water, a wheelhouse completely enclosing the helmsman and wheel gear, round and elliptical stems, and an exterior ornamented by hand-carved scrolling.
Calburga was an important transporter in the timber trade to South America and also sailed to South Africa, Buenos Aires, and Great Britain. Amidst her travels, Calburga also transferred ownership and command. She was owned at various times by Thomas Douglas, and W.K. Stair and commanded by Jonatha Douglas, Captain Mackenzie, and W.D. Nelson.
During World War I, Calburga saw service as a transport ship between Canada and Great Britain. On November 13, 1915, on her second transport voyage from Canada to Great Britain, under the command of W.D. Nelson, Calburga ran aground on the rocks near Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire, Wales. where they were welcomed by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society and provided transport back to their home port in Halifax.
The wreck of Calburga still lies on the Welsh seabed and has become a popular diving destination. A model of the ship, created by David Coldwell and Glenn Buckmaster, is on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax.
Notes
|title=Welsh Shipwrecks |publisher=Laidlaw-Burgess |year=1981 |first=Thomas|last=Bennett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbeLSAAACAAJ |title=Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The Story of the Square-Rigged Merchant Marine of British North America |first=Frederick William|last=Wallace |year=1937 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2gegK-PBbPoC |publisher=Charles E. Lauriat |pages=156–158 |isbn=9781428657182 }} |newspaper=The Country Echo |date=18 November 1915
References
- "Aberbach Beach". Visit Pembrokeshire.
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- Kendrick, Pete. (1978). "Ships of Yesteryear". Amherst Daily News.
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