Les Écossais by Lucille H. Campey

Author:Lucille H. Campey
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781554882090
Publisher: Dundurn

View of Stornoway Harbour c. 1820. In 1816, the newly built Morning field of Aberdeen carried 63 emigrants from Stornoway to Québec. The John and Samuel of Liverpool also called at Stornoway that same year to collect 82 Skye emigrants, some of whom settled at Dundee Township in Huntingdon County. William Daniell, Voyage Round Great Britain Volume IV (1820) Stornoway, in the Isle of Lewis. Courtesy of Birmingham Central Library, United Kingdom.

By the late 1840s emigrants could travel on large and streamlined ships like the 340-ton Berbice of Aberdeen. The sharpness of the hull and sheer lines, which helped to reduce wave-making resistance, all contributed to greater speed.34 Having a floor to ceiling space between decks of seven feet and an “AE1” rating from Lloyd’s of London, she was a popular choice. Her spacious height between decks was a considerable improvement on McKnight and McIlwarith’s Eagle which probably offered no more than five and one half feet.35 Given that the average male height at the time was somewhere between five feet five inches and five feet seven inches, this would have been miserly accommodation.36 Nevertheless, while she offered more space and speed than was possible with earlier ships like the Eagle, the Berbice was still limited by the forces of nature. Sailing still depended on catching the wind in sails and on the vagaries of the weather.

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