Wreck of the Annie Roberts, The

DESCRIPTION: Annie Roberts leaves Sydney, Nova Scotia for Lamaline, Newfoundland in a gale with a cargo of coal. The steamer Risenor crashes into the Annie and can only rescue one man.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1977 (Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou)
KEYWORDS: death sea ship storm wreck
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 1, "The Wreck of the Annie Roberts" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #26052
NOTES [130 words]: [Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou date this wreck to] October 22, 1913. Northern Shipwrecks Database places the collision in Sydney Harbour, makes the collision with SS Wabana, and estimates five lost.
I find no other reference to "a steamer Risenor" anywhere. - BS
Frank Galgay and Michael McCarthy, Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador, [Volume I], Harry Cuff Publishing, 1987, p. 77, says that the Annie Roberts was a schooner sailing out of Lamaline, and confirms the October 22, 1913 date. It too says that five men were lost, but has no other details. Their later book, Frank Galgay and Michael McCarthy, Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador, Volume III, Creative Publishers, 1995, p. 166, however, gives the date as October 27. The rest of the data is the same. - RBW
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