Schooner Annie, The

DESCRIPTION: The cargo schooner Annie is caught in a November gale. The crew abandons her in a dory. The storm continues for days. McCarthy is washed overboard, but saved. The crew is rescued by the Monarch, under Captain Blackmore, and brought to land.
AUTHOR: Peter Leonard (source: notes to ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
EARLIEST DATE: 1978 (ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
KEYWORDS: rescue commerce sea ship shore ordeal storm wreck sailor
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Nov. 1915 - Schooner Annie lost off St. Shotts, at the southern tip of the Avalon peninsula (per Northern Shipwrecks Database). The notes at ITMA/CapeShoreNL have the Annie, bound from St. John's to Placentia Bay, lost in a gale; the crew was rescued by the Monarch (the song has that as Monaduck)
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
Roud #3227
RECORDINGS:
Caroline Brennan, "The Schooner Annie" (on ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
NOTES [98 words]: According to the notes to this song at ITMA/CapeShoreNL the original song title was "Jim McCarthy." - BS
The tune of this seems to be taken from "The Banks of Newfoundland." Peter Leonard is also credited with "The Hole in the Wall," "Soup Supper in Clattice Harbour," and "Tobias Murphy and Tom Hann," none of which seem to have been very well known. I can't find anything else about the Annie; although the attribution at the ITMA site seems likely, there were so many Newfoundland wrecks of boats named Annie (Annie Roberts, etc.) that there may have been some cross-fertilization. - RBW
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