With a donation given by a wealthy unknown New York lady the Grenfell Mission was able to build a new schooner after the first MARAVAL was lost after an explosion in Sydney N.S. in 1927.
The new schooner MARAVAL was built on a yard in Thomaston, Maine for the International Grenfell Association during 1928-1929.
Built of wood, did have oak frames and planking, had an inner shell of oak planking on the inside of her timbers. She was almost a double hulled vessel.
Tonnage 57 gross, 40 net. Dim.?
One 60 hp auxiliary engine.
Ketch rigged.
She was used to transport supplies to the mission post in Labrador and sick or wounded people to the main hospital of the mission at St Antony, Newfoundland. I have been in St Antony during the 1960s loading frozen whale meat for pet food in the U.K., at that time I did see regular waterplanes landing there from Labrador with sick people for the hospital.
She was in service till 1960. Her fate unknown.
The stamp shows Dr. Grenfell on the bridge of the STRATHCONA II when she were passing the MARAVAL, the sailing vessel in the background.
Newfoundland 1941 5c sg275, scott252.