Sinking of the Vestris, The

DESCRIPTION: Vestris sail proudly from New York into a storm: "wild waves... And in her side a hole was pounded" The captain's message for help is too late. "Well do we know that someone blundered. We must forgive after all For we are adrift on life's briny ocean"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (MUNFLA-Leach)
KEYWORDS: travel death drowning sea ship storm wreck
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Nov 12, 1928 - Steamship liner Vestris bound to Barbados from New York City capsized and sank at Hampton Roads, Virginia with 112 dead (per Northern Shipwrecks Database)
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
Roud #22428
RECORDINGS:
Joe Sutton, "S. S. Vesteris" (on MUNFLA-Leach)
NOTES [28 words]: Bruce D. Berman, Encyclopedia of American Shipwrecks, Mariner's Press, 1972, p. 149, agrees with the date of the loss of the Vestris but says that 110 were lost. - RBW
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