Boats
Transportation of lumber to the main St. Johns market was mainly sent by schooners the Nancy Lee and the Percy Wells. Three other smaller boats which were used to haul booms of logs to the mill site at garden cove. These three boats were named the Doman, the Swan and the Beattie. The company also owned an ocean-going barge with a capacity of carrying 1000000 boards of lumber. They also owned a steamer, the Walter Kennedy. They also had a smaller boat named the Big Ten, used mostly for company business matters.
Shipwrecks
In the 1930’s the Percy Wells was returning fully loaded and was lost, including the entire crew, somewhere off the south of Newfoundland. During the Second World War the company sold the Nancy Lee and she made one trip to Europe for the new owners and the profits on that voyage were more than enough to pay for the $60,000 she had been purchased for, but on her second trip she was lost with all the crew members aboard. The Old scow broke her moorings and drifted up into Nor’ West River where some of the remains still exist today.