Research Catalog

Title

Survivors and lost heroes : the sea from Cape Race to Cape Ray / Robert Parsons.

Author

Parsons, Robert Charles, 1944-

Publication

Grand Bank, NL : Books of the Sea, 2007.

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Details

Description

xiv, 316 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Shipwrecks > Newfoundland and Labrador
• Seafaring life > Newfoundland and Labrador
• Ships > Newfoundland and Labrador
• Naufrages > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
• Vie en mer > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
• Navires > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
• Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- A Story of Tragedy -- Lost Seamen: Their Names Were Never Recorded -- Rencontre's Strange Tale of the Codseeker -- Ships and Murder. Marine Disasters. Castaways from Rose Blanche. Ship Ashore -- A Dot on the Map -- Oderin and the August Gales. Ships Named Foote, An Unlucky Sign. Disappearance of the Clarence Foote -- The Wrecked Texas and the Gale of June, 1894 -- From Lawn to St. Pierre: A Story of the Sea. Loss of the Elizabeth -- Trying Time for a Grand Bank Captain -- Crew of Twenty-Five Reach St. Bride's -- A Pitiful Tale of Hardship and Privation -- Mute Evidence of Tragedy off at Cape Ray -- The Rock Called Nancy Kane -- H.M.S. Viknor and Arnold's Cove -- Overdue -- Ship Sunk, Crew Robbed. New Life (and Death) for Gladys M. Hollett -- A St. Shotts Tragedy. A Survivor's Story -- Mystery of the Deep at Fox Roost -- Defender -- Crack Gloucesterman -- Two Burgeo Ships -- Unreported for Ninety Days -- Hunger at Pass Island --^
• The Come by Chance End of the Pleiades -- A Tale of Endurance -- The Cold Hard Facts of Fire at Sea -- Wreck Scenes at Lamaline. Stranding of the S.S. Sable I. An Unusual Burial -- Oporto, 1928, Age 14 -- The Blinds Were Drawn -- Trials of the Rum Runner Whichone -- Smuggling -- Bound for St. Pierre -- and a Missing Schooner -- Fortune Seamen, Safe but Destitute in Big Brook -- Safe in St. Joseph's. Loading Lumber in St. Joseph's, or Mount Carmel, St. Mary's Bay -- Survivors of the Wreck of St. Pierraise -- When a Ship Goes Down -- How To Survive an August Gale -- Alone at Twelve -- Belleoram Seamen: A Battle with the Sea. Other Belleoram Sea Scenes -- The Last Christmas Dinner on Dazzle -- James and Stanley: The Garnish Connection. Past Glimpses of the Nina W. Corkum -- Shipwreck at Blue Beach -- Fiery End for James U. Thomas -- Hard Luck Ship -- How We Got the News of the Marshall Frank -- Hard Times for Burin Peninsula Vessels -- Howard Cecil: A Wreck off Lamaline --^
• The Dredge Fundy -- Building the Alberto Wareham -- Lost on Nova Scotia's Shores, Ruby L.M. Smith -- Sheila Patricia -- Bertha Joyce on the Cliffs of St. Shotts -- Iceland's Last Trip -- Tale of Two Ships. Marie Stone -- "Fire, Fire!" -- Missing Ships, Large and Small. Debris from Another Missing Ship -- Sabotage: East Star in an International Incident -- One of the Last of the Splinter Fleet -- The Spirit of Samoset -- Appendix A: Toilers of the Sea, 1912 -- Appendix B: Last Banking Crew of Sherman Zwicker -- Index: Newfoundland and Labrador Surnames.

ISBN

• 9780978111410
• 0978111419

LCCN

^^2007702270

OCLC

141842372

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library