Captain Clyde Ewart Scott
Personal details
Gender : |
Male
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Date of Birth : |
29/Apr/1899
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Deceased Date : |
20/Oct/1982
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Country of Birth : |
Cayman Islands |
District : |
Cayman Brac |
Locality : |
Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands |
Contributions
Bio
Introduction:
Capt. Clyde Ewart Scott, 1899 - 1982
"As a young man he pursued and soon mastered seamanship and attained his ambition of becoming a sea-captain."
"Like other mechants, Captain Clyde invested in a big catboat to take rope to the ship (Cimboco) and bring other cargo to the shore.
This boat was also used between times, to take workers to Little Cayman to harvest coconuts and thatch-tops, which they would bring back. The tops harvest coconuts and thatch tops, which they would bring back. The tops were distributed to families in the community who supplemented their income by twisting and laying the rope, which was in turn shipped to Jamaica where it was in great demand for use by fishermen."
"During the nineteen-fifties and early sixties, Captain Clyde leased Pedro Cays from Jamaica Government and took a number of young men from Cayman Brac to these Cays, where they would remove the shubbery and break spoil eggs in preparation for the Egg-birds and Noddy-Terns to lay their eggs. Captain Clyde and his men knew the exact day in the springtime, on which tens of thousands of these birds would come to lay and hatch their eggs, these little uninhabited islands. Each season, the men harvested as many as sixty to hundred thousand of these egs, which were readily sold in Kingston, Jamaica, satisfying the great demand there."