cadboroCadboro, 1824-1860
The cadboroCadboro, also spelled cadboroCadborough, was a 17 m long, 5 m wide schooner built in 1826 and purchased by the Hudson's Bay
Company; it arrived on the Pacific Coast on April 24th, 1827.1
From 1846-47 it carried the crew of the wrecked sharkShark to California. cadboroCadboro was wrecked in 1860 on its way out of Puget Sound.2
The cadboroCadboro is mentioned several times in the correspondence collection.
- 1. Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss, eds., Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America,
1830-57 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003), 408.
- 2. Ibid.
Mentions of this vessel in the documents
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The Colonial Despatches: Clover Point
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Douglas, Sir James to Grey, Third Earl, Henry George 11 February 1852, CO 305:3, no.
3778, 91.
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Pelly, Sir John Henry to Hawes, Benjamin 24 October 1846, CO 305:1, no. 1301, 25.
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Douglas, Sir James to Grey, Third Earl, Henry George 29 January 1852, CO 305:3, no.
3742, 84.
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The Colonial Despatches: Garry Point
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The Colonial Despatches: Brotchie, William
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Douglas, Sir James to Pakington, Captain John Somerset 27 August 1852, CO 305:3, no.
10199, 134.