Blue Wave, The

DESCRIPTION: The Triton, fishing the Grand Banks, hears that the Cape Dolphin and Blue Wave are sinking in a storm. They join the search for Blue Wave but "no sign of their missing boat was anywhere to be found"
AUTHOR: Jack Lushman
EARLIEST DATE: 1977 (Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou)
KEYWORDS: death sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Feb 9, 1959 - Blue Wave and Cape Dauphin are lost but Cape Dauphin's crew are saved (per Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou, Northern Shipwrecks Database)
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 9, "The Blue Wave" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #30699
NOTES [46 words]: Frank Galgay and Michael McCarthy, Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador, [Volume I], Harry Cuff Publishing, 1987, p. 78, says of the Blue Wave, "Side trawler, foundered on the Grand Banks on or about 10 Fed 1959. Lost were Captain Charles Waters and a 16 man crew." - RBW
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