![]() He had been far down the line of succession and had spent much of his youth as a sailor, which included visits to what is now Canada. The “tar” in its name is an old reference to sailors, while “royal” referred to the newly crowned King William IV. She was “equipped in unusually fine style for those days” and “there was great rejoicing in Saint John when this fine steamer was completed,” Reynolds wrote. It established an important trade route linking the city with Boston and Portland, Maine. ![]() The Royal Tar had been constructed only one year before the disaster, in Saint John. The then-popular playground rhyme referred to the 1836 sinking of the Royal Tar steamship, which according to Reynolds, was “one of the most remarkable marine disasters in the annals of the Maritimes provinces.”
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