The full-rigged ship Cambrian was originally named the James Edwards when she was launched from Walter Brown's Portland Yard at St. John, New Brunswick (Canada in June 1865. Built for Joseph Pritchard of St. John, she was registered at 1,090 tons and measured 179½ feet in length with a 37 foot beam. From her home port of St. John she regurlarly voyaged to Liverpool and London, but changed her name to Cambrian in 1874 at which time her owner is noted as B.A. Pritchard of Bootle, Lancashire, probably a relation of the aforementioned Joseph who merely acted as her Agent in the U.K.. Last recorded in Capt. Beard's Lists of Sailing Ships, she is stated there to have been abandoned whilst on passage to Falmouth on 24 May, 1878.