The John A Harvie by F. Weltering
painted in 1876 during the vessel's first visit to Germany

From a 1985 article "The Story of a Bluenose Barque" by Ralph A. Harvie of Oregon, USA.

        John Andrew Harvie (1834-1882), a great grandson of John Harvie (1730-1822), built the above barque bearing his name in his shipyard at Avondale (now Newport Landing) in Hants County, Nova Scotia. Measuring 177 feet in length by 37 feet beam, with the jib-boom projecting about 59 feet in front of the stem of the hull, she was the fifteenth of nineteen vessels constructed by her builder between 1863 and 1881. She had a registered tonnage of 1035 tons, and according to the Register a main hold capacity of 942.9 tons and half-poop capacity of 30.2 tons - one ton corresponding to 100 cubic feet. On the main trunk, which was likely about 75 feet in height, can be seen the owner's house flag - a blue H on a white background within a wide red border.
        The John A Harvie was launched on 22 July 1876 and was destined to never return to her home port of Windsor. She began her 21st and last passage across the North Atlantic on or about 30 Oct. 1880 when she left New York for Dublin with a cargo of maize. On 25 November she ran on to rocks near Tacumshane on the south coast of Ireland, only about fifteen miles short of a clear run up to St. Albert's Channel to Dublin, and was abandoned two days later with all 15 men and 2 women aboard saved.