Research Catalog

Title

Wind and wave : sea tales from around our coast / Robert C. Parsons.

Author

Parsons, Robert Charles, 1944-

Publication

St. John's, N.L. : Creative Publishers, 2003.

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Details

Description

xii, 274 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Seafaring life > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Shipwrecks > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Sailing ships > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Naufrages > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire
• Vie en mer > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire
• Navires à voiles > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire
• Newfoundland and Labrador > History > Anecdotes
• Atlantic Coast (N.L.) > History > Anecdotes
• Newfoundland and Labrador > History, Naval > Anecdotes
• Newfoundland and Labrador > Anecdotes

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Biographies – Anecdotes
• History
• Naval history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Author's notes and Introduction -- A Survivor's Story -- Noxall and the August Gale of 1927 -- On the Rocks of St. Shotts -- What Happened in Mid-Ocean? -- A Renown Loss -- Three Brothers to the Rescue -- Shipwreck Coast -- The Captain's Ordeal -- Disaster on the Labrador -- Wreck of E.M.A. Frampton -- Tragedy on Little Sacred Island -- So Near, Yet So Far Away -- Irene May Explodes off Lewisporte -- Danger in the Lumber Trade -- The Ophir on Penguin Islands -- Praise Be to the Lightkeeper -- Two Stories from the Straight Shore -- Action at Cabot Islands -- The Memory of Little Jap -- A Big Schooner: R.R. Govin -- Friendly Fire: H.M.S. Patricia Rammed -- The Price of Coal -- A Wreck on Elliston's Shores -- Loss of C. Bryant -- Twice Unlucky: M.V. Lutzen -- Rescue at Point La Haye -- A Letter of Appeal -- Finding an Abandoned Schooner -- Battle with the Atlantic -- Torpedoed Three Times in Three Weeks -- The Ghostly Appearance -- In the Wake of the Wop -- Walter Waugh: Castaway of Biscayan Rock -- Four Hours on Anvil Rock -- Help Arrives on the Cliffs of Horrid Gulch -- Collision off Sugarloaf -- Beginning and Ending in Nova Scotia -- The Strange Fate of Aureola's Crew -- S.S. Beverley Disappears -- Mercy Missions of the Harbour Tug -- Tragedy at Bay Bulls -- Wrecks along the Motion -- Anxious Times for Letty B -- Survivor's View of Newfoundland, 1917 -- For the Want of a Lighthouse -- Mall Bay to the Rescue -- A St. Mary's Hero -- A Long Row to Safety -- Men of Placentia Bay: Crossing the Atlantic -- Battling Plague and Storm -- When Debris Drifts Ashore: Loss of the Ravenel -- Fire at Sea -- Sources -- Index of Vessels, Towns, and Landmarks -- Index of Persons and Businesses.

ISBN

1894294629 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 52239352
• SCSB-12157861

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library