Baron Renfrew

The Columbus and the Baron Renfrew , built respectively in 1824 and 1825 with the maritime building sites of Charles Wood, located with the Holy-Pétronille Handle of the fort, , Île of Orleans were gigantic Voilier S with four masts - actually of the barge S out of wood - which measured more than 90 meters and which measured between: 4000 and 6000 [[barrel (unit) barrel]] X.

These built ships coarsely, not very sedentary, flat-bottomed and charged with full timber capacity were intended for a transitory career since, to avoid paying an English tax, they were to be dismounted as of their arrival in England so that the structures of the boat and their loading can be sold quickly like timber structural.

These two very large ships, largest built during the 19th century, seems it, will thus have had an extremely short life: the Baron off Renfrew , which had left Quebec on August 23rd, 1825 was failed and dismembered in the Pas-de-calais on October 24th of the same year. Its cargo was recovered. As for the Columbus which had left Quebec on September 5th, 1824 and had arrived at destination on November 1st, it made shipwreck in the Manche, on May 17th, 1825, at the beginning of a new crossing which its owners had decided to carry out, in the hope to go to seek a new wood cargo as profitable as the first.

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