Andrew Beckwith Coldwell (1844 - 1919)

Born 1844 in Horton Bluff Road, Lockhartville, Horton District, Kings Co., Nova Scotia

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Died 13 Jan 1919 at about age 75 in Avon Street, Hantsport, Hants Co., Nova Scotia

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BARQUE HAMBURG ~ Master Mariner, Capt. Andrew B. Coldwell

Hamburg was a three masted barque built in 1886 at Hantsport, Nova Scotia. She was the largest three masted barque ever built in Canada .[1] Hamburg was one of the last of over a hundred large sailing vessels built by the Churchill family of Hantsport, led by Ezra Churchill. Her name continued the Churchill family tradition of naming ships after ports where they often traded. The barque's captain for almost her entire career was Andrew B. Coldwell. Hamburg worked mostly Atlantic trades but also made several long Pacific voyages, rounded Cape Horn many times and made one circumnavigation of the world in 1891. She called at her namesake port of Hamburg, Germany in 1895. She was converted to a gypsum barge in 1908 and served 17 years carrying gypsum under tow from the Minas Basin to New York. Her working career ended in 1925 when she was beached at Summerville, Hants County, Nova Scotia, just across and downriver from the site of her launch at Hantsport. In 1936, her massive wooden hull was burned to the waterline, leaving her lower hull partially covered and preserved in river silt. The site now offers a rare surviving example of the structure of a wooden sailing ship from Canada's Golden Age of Sail. The vessel's history is presented at the nearby Avon River Shipbuilding Museum at Newport Landing and at the Churchill House Marine Memorial Room in Hantsport. One of the lower lasts from Hamburg is preserved at the Age of Sail Heritage Centre in Port Greville, Nova Scotia.

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• "Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLRW-296 : 10 February 2018), Mary Beatrice Caldwell, 04 May 1875; citing Lockhartville, Kings, Nova Scotia; FHL microfilm 1,298,810.

• "Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLRH-WQ2 : 10 February 2018), Andrew Coldwell, 29 Oct 1876; citing Lockhartville, Kings, Nova Scotia; FHL microfilm 1,298,810.