5/22/2023 0 Comments The circus ship![]() ![]() ![]() After three days, the Royal Tar tried to make headway. The steamship ran into heavy weather and put into a safe harbor. The cages made it difficult to move on deck, and the passengers pretty much stayed in their quarters.Īs was the custom, passengers put their valuables – gold and silver coins and expensive jewelry - into the ship’s safe. ![]() The crew removed two lifeboats to make room for the animal cages, leaving only two others. 21, 1836, the Royal Tar left Peter’s Wharf in Eastport, heavily overloaded with a crew of 21, 70 passengers, a brass band and the Fuller menagerie. The circus included an elephant, a tiger, two camels, exotic snakes, birds, a waxworks exhibit, gaudy show wagons and horses to pull them. In October that year, a circus called Burgess and Dexter’s Zoological Institute chartered the Royal Tar. On June 5, 1836, the steamer broke a speed record by sailing between Eastport, Maine, and St. To mark the occasion, her owners served a hot lunch to hundreds of onlookers, and they drank ‘rivers of sherry and oceans of champagne.’ John when she made her maiden voyage around the harbor. The Royal Tar, named after King William IV, created a sensation in St. She was 164 feet long, with a wooden side wheel and elegant passengers’ quarters that rivaled the finest hotels. John, New Brunswick, and Portland, Maine, her owners claimed her the safest ship on the sea. In 1836, when the steamship Royal Tar launched the first regular service between St. ![]()
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