Northeast Gale, The

DESCRIPTION: June 18, 1906 "one hundred sailors of fishing craft to Cape St Mary's go." They are caught in a gale and the men out in dories, which had been out to haul the trawlers, are lost. Survivors return to Golden Bay and mourn the loss.
AUTHOR: Walt Young (source: notes to ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
EARLIEST DATE: 1978 (ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
KEYWORDS: death drowning mourning fishing sea ship storm
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
June 1906 - Schooner Avenue lost off Cape St. Mary's, at the southern tip of the Avalon peninsula (per Northern Shipwrecks Database). According to the notes at ITMA/CapeShoreNL, "Several fishing craft from Placentia Bay that were fishing off Cape St Mary's were caught in the storm and men were lost at sea."
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
Roud #26873
RECORDINGS:
Denis McGrath, "The Northeast Gale" (on ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
File: ITMANEGa

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