Wreck of the Tolesby, The

DESCRIPTION: "You daring sons of Newfoundland, come listen unto me" as the singer tells how the Tolesby was lost in Trepassey Bay. Sailing from Galveston, she ran into a snowstorm near Cape Race. Her survivors are rescued when a fisherman takes a line down a cliff
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1923 (Murphy, Songs Their Fathers Sung)
KEYWORDS: storm ship wreck disaster rescue
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1907 - the Tolesby wreck
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: James Murphy, _Songs Their Fathers Sung: For Fishermen: Old Time Ditties_, James Murphy Publishing, 1923 (PDF available from the Memorial University of Newfoundland web site), p. 13, "The Loss of the Tolesby" (1 text)
Roud #26746
RECORDINGS:
John Bulger, "The Wreck of the Tolesby" (on MUNFLA-Leach)
File: JMSFS013

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