Survivors and Lost Heroes

The Sea from Cape Race to Cape Ray
by Robert Parsons

ISBN 978-0-9781114-1-0 316 pages, b&w illustrations Price: CDN$22.95 Qty:

Book Description Survivors and Lost Heroes: The Sea from Cape Race to Cape Ray" by Robert C. Parsons Table of Contents 1. A Story of Tragedy - locale Otter’s Point 2. Lost Seamen: Their Names Were Never Recorded – Garia, Garia Bay 3. Renconter’s Strange Tale of the Codseeker - Renconter East 4. Ships and Murder - Rose Blanche 5. A Dot on the Map - St. Pierre 6. Oderin and the August Gales 7. The Wrecked Texas and the Gale of June, 1894 - Little Harbour West, Placentia Bay 8. From Lawn to St. Pierre: A Story of the Sea 9. Trying Time for a Grand Bank Captain 10.Crew of Twenty-Five Reach - St. Bride’s 11.A Pitiful Tale of Hardship and Privation - Garnish, Burin 12.Mute Evidence of Tragedy off at Cape Ray 13.The Rock Called Nancy Cann - St. Mary's Bay 14.H.M.S. Viknor and Arnold’s Cove 15.Overdue – Fortune 16.Ship Sunk, Crew Robbed – Burin 17.A St. Shotts Tragedy 18.Mystery of the Deep at Fox Roost 19.Defender – Crack Gloucesterman - Channel-Port aux Basques 20.Two Burgeo Ships 21.Unreported for Ninety Days – Gaultois 22.Hunger at Pass Island 23.The Come by Chance End of the Pleiades 24.A Tale of Endurance – Sagona and Red Cove 25.The Cold Hard Facts of Fire at Sea – Boxey 26.Wreck Scenes at Lamaline 27.Oporto, 1928, Age 14 – Fortune 28.The Blinds Were Drawn – Little St. Lawrence 29.Trials of the Rum Runner Whichone - St. Lawrence 30.Smuggling - Burin Peninsula 31.Bound for St. Pierre – and a Missing Schooner – Lories and St. Pierre 32.Fortune Seamen, Safe but Destitute in Big Brook 33.Safe in St. Joseph’s, St. Mary’s Bay 34.Survivors of the Wreck of St. Pierraise – Boat Harbour and St. Pierre 35.When a Ship Goes Down – Fortune and Little Bay East 36.How To Survive an August Gale – Trepassey and Creston North 37.Alone at Twelve - English Harbour West 38.Belleoram Seamen: A Battle with the Sea 39.The Last Christmas Dinner on Dazzle - Port Royal 40.James and Stanley: The Garnish Connection 41.Shipwreck at Blue Beach - St. Lawrence 42.Fiery End for James U. Thomas – Pushthrough 42.Hard Luck Ship - Port aux Basques 43.How We Got the News of Marshall Frank – Boxey and Coomb's Cove 44.Hard Times for Burin Peninsula Vessels 45.Howard Cecil: A Wreck off Lamaline - Tack's Beach 46.The Dredge Fundy - Lord's Cove 47.“How We Built the Alberto Wareham” - Creston North 48.Lost on Nova Scotia’s Shores – Burin 49.Sheila Patricia - Hare Harbour and Belleoram 50.Bertha Joyce on the Cliffs of St. Shotts - Spencer's Cove 51.Iceland’s Last Trip - Little Bay East 52.Tale of Two Ships - Tack's Beach 53.Missing Ships, Large and Small – Ramea and Spanish Room 54.Sabotage: East Star in an International Incident - St. Joseph's, Placentia Bay 55.One of the Last of the Splinter Fleet - Mall Bay and St. Alban's 56.The Spirit of Samoset - Baine Harbour and Brookside Appendix A and B Index of People, Towns and Ships