Susan, The

DESCRIPTION: The Susan, returning to Bonaventure from successful fishing on the Labrador, sinks in a storm at Cutthroat and the crew of four is lost
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1977 (Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou)
KEYWORDS: death fishing sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Sep 6, 1912 - Loss of the Susan M
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 103, "The Susan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4405
NOTES [125 words]: Cut Throat Island is up the Labrador Coast near the mouth of Groswater Bay about 140 air miles northeast of Happey Valley-Goose Bay. Bonaventure, Trinity Bay, is just north of the Avalon Peninsula. - BS
The name Susan, the mention of Cut Throat, and the name Captain Miller allow us to positively identify the ship involved. Captain Joseph Prim and Mike McCarthy, The Angry Seas: Shipwrecks on the Coast of Labrador, Jesperson Publishing, 1999, p. 118, says that the Susan M was a "Schooner, Miller, Master, lost at Cut Throat Island, Labrador, September 6, 1912, two crew members drowned, seven saved." They have further details on the storm, and another brief mention of the boat (which they there call the Susan M. Miller) on pp. 82-85. - RBW
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