Wreck of the Christabel, The

DESCRIPTION: Sunday, Christabel is anchored in Bonavista harbour. It is wrecked by a gale with a crew of nine on board. One jumps in a rowboat "to try what he could do" but is lost. Monday the remaining crew are rescued by rowboats.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1985 (Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou)
KEYWORDS: rescue death sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Jun 7, 1885 - Christable/Christabel wreck in Bonavista Harbour (Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou, Northern Shipwrecks Database)
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 22, "The Wreck of the Christabel" (1 text)
Roud #30704
NOTES [64 words]: Northern Shipwrecks Database shows as the cause "Stranded fin anchor" and notes that a monument was erected(?). - BS
Frank Galgay and Michael McCarthy, Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador, [Volume I], Harry Cuff Publishing, 1987, p. 79, reports that the Christabel was a "Barque, wrecked off Bonavista 7 June 1885. Crew rescued through the bravery of three Bonavista men." - RBW
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