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Title

Survive the savage sea : short tales from our ocean heritage / Robert Parsons.

Author

Parsons, Robert Charles, 1944-

Publication

St. John's, Nfld. : Creative Publishers, 1998.

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Details

Description

xvi, 334 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Naufrages > Terre-Neuve
• Shipwrecks > Newfoundland

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: S.S. Sandbeach Destroyed by an Explosion, Highlands, Heatherton, St. Fintan's, Colliers, C. Bay -- Chapter 2: Ida Campbell: Stranded on Wood's Island, Wood's Island, Bay of Islands -- Chapter 3: Disappearance of Francis Robie, Wood's Island, Bay of Islands -- Chapter 4: The Long Walk -- W.E. Morrissey, Bellburns -- Chapter 5: Wimoda: Crushed by Arctic Ice, Belle Isle, Cape Bauld -- Chapter 6: Armistice Goes to Davey Jones' Locker, Englee -- Chapter 7: Whatever Happened to Stanley Parsons? Lush's Bight, Long Island -- Chapter 8: Alma: Casualty of the Labrador Fleet. Triton, Winterton -- Chapter 9: Sidney Smith: A World War One Victim, Twillingate -- Chapter 10: Dorothy Baird, Holed by Her Own Spar, Fogo -- Chapter 11: Wreck of Francis P. Duke, Fogo, Badger's Quay -- Chapter 12: Percy Wells and Others "Lost at Sea", Horwood -- Chapter 13: Rose M off Fayal, Azores, Fogo, Norris Arm --^
• Chapter 14: No Survivors on the Mollie, Carmanville, Grate's Cove -- Chapter 15: Mab: Seven Days Adrift, Newtown, Portugal Cove South -- Chapter 16: Last of her Kind, Maxwell R. Corkum, Badger's Quay, Valleyfield -- Chapter 17: Seeking Shelter at Lumsden, Lumsden -- Chapter 18: Wreck of the Majestic, Wesleyville, Cabot Island -- Chapter 19: Loss of the Nerette, Greenspond -- Chapter 20: Athlete II and Tishy: Wrecked on the Same Night, St. Brendan's, Shambler's Cove, Bonavista Bay -- Chapter 21: Victim of a Storm: Blue Blossom, Dancing Cove, Bonavista, Brigus -- Chapter 22: Abandoning the Cento, Catalina, Bonavista -- Chapter 23: Two Fine Vessels: Revenue, Albert J. Lutz, Catalina -- Chapter 24. Debris from the Effie M at Old Perlican, Trinity, Old Perlican, T. Bay -- Chapter 25. Adrift: Fate of Ryan Brothers' Schooner Sperry, Trinity, T. Bay -- Chapter 26: Tragedy at Trinity, Trinity, T. Bay -- Chapter 27: Flares from the Edward VII, Random --^
• Chapter 28: "Gone from our Midst" E.B. Phillips, C.A. Hubley, Heart's Content, Heart's Delight, New Perlican -- Chapter 29: Captain Ellis Janes' Story of Catherine B, Hant's Harbour -- Chapter 30: Tragedy at Burnt Point: Warren M. Colp. Silverdale, Burnt Point -- Chapter 31: Long Voyage of the Maggie Bell, Carbonear, Freshwater, Perry's Cove -- Chapter 32: One of Newfoundland's Most Beautiful Ships, Carbonear, St. John's -- Chapter 33: Freedom's Crew Long Row to Barbados, Brigus -- Chapter 34: Tragedy in the Narrows, Lethbridge/Brooklyn, St. John's Narrows -- Chapter 35: Phoebe: Wrecked at St. John's Narrows, St. John's Narrows, Random Sound -- Chapter 36: Red Gauntlet Goes Down, St. John's -- Chapter 37: Abandonment of the Ruby W, St. John's -- Chapter 38: Disastrous Voyage of the Kinsman, St. John's -- Chapter 39: Evelyn: Lost with Crew (1924), St. John's -- Chapter 40: Capt. Abe Kean's Ships: Cecil, Jr., Little Stephano, St. John's, Flower's Island --^
• Chapter 41: Cape Freels Burns, South east of St. John's -- Chapter 42: Evelyn: Fearless Men of Ferryland (1913), Ferryland -- Chapter 43: No Survivors from the President Coaker, Cappahayden, Port Union, Catalina -- Chapter 44: A.B. Barteau's Ordeal by Ice off Cape Race -- Chapter 45: Loss of the Fond Return, Trepassey, Bay Bulls -- Chapter 46: S.S. Tolsby's Wreck at Drook, Drook, Portugal Cove South, Trepassey Bay -- Chapter 47: Jennie Barno Disappears, Trepassey -- Chapter 48: S.S. Morien Finally Located, Placentia, St. Bride's -- Chapter 49: Clintonia's Captain: Ordeal in Water and Fire, Placentia, St.John's -- Chapter 50: Beatrice K, Sunk by a Derelict, Red Island, Burin -- Chapter 51: Nineteen Hour Struggle: Joan Ellamae, Burin -- Chapter 52: Steamship Rescues Six, St. Lawrence, Burin -- Chapter 53: Ontario: Death at Lawn, Lawn, St. Lawrence -- Chapter 54: Two Fishermen of Fortune, Fortune -- Chapter 55: Workman, Cut Down off Spain, Grand Bank, St. John's --^
• Chapter 56: When Two Ships Collide: Flirt, Marshall Frank, Halifax, South Coast -- Chapter 57: February Storms off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia -- Chapter 58: Vogue: One Ship and One Life, English Harbour West -- Chapter 59: Florence Swyers, Victim of the Deeps, English Harbour West -- Chapter 60: Fire on the Jean and Mona, Boxey, Connaigre Peninsula -- Chapter 61: Inez G of Burgeo Capsizes, Burgeo -- Chapter 62: Mission Boat Tragedy off West Point/Lapoile, Lapoile -- Chapter 63: Izetta's Wreck, McDougall's Gulch, Wreck House -- Appendices -- Sources -- Vessel Index -- Town Index.

ISBN

1895387965

LCCN

cn^98950117^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library