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Photo Title:	"Tobeatic" (Schooner)
Description:	Painting of the schooner "Tobeatic."
Image No.:	PF-008.106
Image Location:	Box10/pf008_106.jpeg
Physical Description:	1 slide : col. ; 35 mm
Biography/Admin History:	The schooner "Tobeatic," Official Number 126036, was built in 1908 at Liverpool, Nova Scotia by Abram Hendry (also owner). Hendry sold her to Henry Petite, a master mariner from Mose Ambrose, Newfoundland on July 21, 1909. In less than a year, Petite sold one third of his shares to A.E. Hickman and another third to Arthur Rendell, both of St. John's, Newfoundland. She was abandoned at sea in the Western Atlantic on January 22, 1914 at 5 p.m.
Collector:	Dr. Harry Roberts
Source Donor:	Dr. Harry Roberts, ca. 1981
Collection Title:	Dr. Harry Roberts Slide Collection
Restrictions on Access:	Copyright expired
Copyright:	p
Physical Condition:	Good
Notes:	See "Newfoundland Fish Boxes: A Chronicle of the Fishery" by Dr. Harry D. Roberts with Michael O. Nowlan.
Subjects:	Tobeatic (Schooner) / Ships in art.