The Doryman (17 page)

List of Ships in
The Doryman

Annie Anita
:
Built on the west coast of the island, a new schooner when she was lost, with her crew of seven, in the August Gale of 1935. Captained by Paddy Walsh of Little Bay.

Annie Healey
:
Nicknamed
Big Annie
, she was lost in the August Gale of 1927 just outside her home port of Fox Harbour. She had a crew of seven men.

Annie Jane
:
A western boat from Isle aux Morts on the island's Southwest Coast. She was lost in the 1927 August Gale and her crew of four died.

SS Argyle
:
A coastal boat. She did relief work on the Burin Peninsula after the 1929
tsunami
. The Newfoundland Government also sent her to the Virgin Rocks to investigate reports of wrecks there after the August Gale of 1935.

Beatrice Beck:
Samuel Frank of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia was swept overboard from this vessel during the August Gale of 1935.

Bella Blanche
:
Owned by the Brown family of Placentia Bay, she was damaged in Renews during the 1935 August Gale.

Bluenose
:
Famous Nova Scotia schooner constructed with steamed timber.

Bridget
:
Captain Paddy Manning's (the author's great grandfather's) schooner. The name of the actual vessel is lost to time, and Bridget being the name of the Captain's wife, it seemed a logical choice.

Cape Race
:
Fictional schooner trying to make port (Trepassey) during the August Gale of 1927.

Carrie Evelyn
:
A forty-ton schooner, captained by Fred Mansfield, that ran aground during the 1935 August Gale; her crew of four were lost.

SS Daisy
:
A revenue cutter. She did relief work on the Burin Peninsula after the 1929
tsunami.

Delight
:
The first recorded shipwreck off North America, at Sable Island, Nova Scotia in 1583.

Ella May
:
A schooner from Rencontre West in Fortune Bay lost in the August Gale of 1927; her crew of six perished.

Emma Jane
:
Fictional ship that the
Laura Claire
is berthed alongside in Burin during Richard's first trip.

Eureka
:
Her gear was discovered at Herring Neck near Twillingate after the 1935 August Gale, though the only vessel of that name on the Newfoundland schooner registry was a 1905 boat owned by a deceased individual.

Fair Haven
:
Fictional ship that the
Laura Claire
is berthed alongside in Burin during Richard's first trip.

Geneva Ethel
:
Doryman Abram Tibbo was swept overboard from this vessel and lost his life during the 1935 August Gale.

Gimball
:
Out of Harbour Buffet, Long Island, Placentia Bay she was wrecked at Riverhead, St. Mary's Bay during the August Gale, 1935.

SS Glencoe
:
A coastal boat. She did relief work on the Burin Peninsula after the 1929
tsunami
.

Hilda Gertrude
:
A Rushoon schooner lost in the 1927 August Gale with a crew of seven.

James and Mary
:
Her wreckage washed up at Southern Harbour, Placentia Bay on August 30, 1935, five days after the gale.

Jane and Martha
:
Schooner out of Long Harbour, Placentia Bay, captained by James Bruce. She rode out the August Gale of 1935.

Jane Bailey
:
Fictional schooner trying to make port (Trepassey) during the August Gale of 1927.

Josephine Walsh
:
A fifty-three-ton schooner out of Little Bay.

Joyce M. Smith
:
A Nova Scotia two-masted schooner with a crew of twenty-two men lost in the 1927 August Gale.

Laura Claire
:
Fictional name of schooner that took Richard on his first trip to the Banks with his father. While the name of the actual vessel and her captain are lost to time, all other details are as true to family history as possible.

Laura Jane
:
A Musgrave Harbour vessel that lost 300 quintals of fish in the 1935 August Gale.

Liberty
:
Forty-five tons, she was lost at Barrow Bay, Bonavista Bay during the August Gale of 1935.

Lottie Dunford
:
Owned by Captain Tobin of Trepassey, she ran aground during the August 1935 Gale but was refloated by the
Malakoff
.

SS Malakoff
:
The Newfoundland Government dispatched her to search around Trepassey and the Southern Shore after the August Gale of 1935.

Mary Anne
:
Fictional schooner trying to make port (Trepassey) during the August Gale of 1927.

Mary Bernice
:
A western boat captained by James Walsh of Little Bay; first mate, Richard Hanrahan. Lost with five men in the August Gale of 1935.

SS Meigle
:
Coastal boat that visited the Burin Peninsula after the 1927
tsunami.

Norman Wareham
:
Captain Blandford's vessel was driven ashore at Wreck Cove, Lamaline in the August Gale of 1935.

SS Portia
:
The first radio-equipped vessel to reach the Burin Peninsula after the
tsunami
of 1929.

Ronald W
:
A Little Bay schooner captained by Jim Joe Farrell. Despite Richard Hanrahan's lack of faith in her age, she rode out the 1935 August Gale.

Sea Venture
:
The inspiration for Shakespeare's
The Tempest
, when she was wrongly presumed lost after an August Gale in 1609.

Seabird
:
A schooner loaded with wood driven ashore at Coachman's Cove during the gale of August 1935.

Tancook
:
Built in Nova Scotia by the builders of the
Bluenose
, the Mannings of Oderin bought her in 1924. She was forty tons and carried five dories.

Valkyrie
:
Captain Reid and the crew of the
Valkyrie
rescued the skipper and dorymen of the
Liberty
as she sank in the August Gale of 1935.

Vienna
:
A Burnt Island schooner with a crew of six men lost in the 1927 August Gale.

W.R. Power
:
A schooner driven aground at Marystown in the 1935 August Gale.

Walter T
:
Lost during the August Gale of 1935; dead were Captain Boutcher, his four brothers, and one other doryman.

Deaths in the Tsunami (Tidal Wave) of 1929
*

James Lockyer, Allan's Island

Thomas, Henry, and Elizabeth Hipditch, Point au Gaul

Elizabeth Walsh, Point au Gaul

Thomas Walsh, Point au Gaul

Mary Anne Walsh, Point au Gaul

Thomas Hillier, Point au Gaul

Irene Hillier, Point au Gaul

Elizabeth Hillier, Point au Gaul

Bridget Bonnell, Taylor's Bay

The child of Robert Bonnell of Taylor's Bay

John and Clayton Bonnell, Taylor's Bay

The child of George Piercey, Taylor's Bay

Frances Kelly, Kelly's Cove

Mrs. Kelly's daughter, Dorothy, Kelly's Cove

Jessie Fudge, Port au Bras

Gertrude Fudge, Port au Bras

Hannah Fudge, Port au Bras

Harriet Fudge, Port au Bras

Henry Dibbon, Port au Bras

Louisa Brushett Allan, visiting her brother Henry Dibbon, Port au Bras

Mary Ann Bennett, Port au Bras

Sarah Rennie, Lord's Cove, and her children:

Rita Rennie, Lord's Cove

Patrick Rennie, Lord's Cove

Bernard Rennie, Lord's Cove

* This list is intended as a memorial to those who died, but it may not be complete due to the inadequacies of the historical record.

Some Dorymen, Mates, and Captains lost in the prosecution of the Newfoundland Banks Fishery
*

Andrew Barnes
, Fortune Bay,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Fred Barnes
, Fortune Bay,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Captain Boutcher
, Kingwell,
Walter T
, 1935.

Four Boutcher Brothers
, Kingwell,
Walter T
, 1935.

John Brinton
,
Annie Anita
, 1935.

Patrick Bruce
,
Annie Healey
, 1927.

Charles Burbridge
, Epworth,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

George Burbridge
, Epworth,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Dan Cheeseman
, Rushoon, 1927.

Philip Cheeseman
, Burin Bay Arm,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Robert Cheeseman
, Burin Bay Arm,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Edward Cheeke
,
Annie Anita
, 1935.

Samuel Crocker
, Creston South,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Arthur Dominick
, Belloram,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

James Farewell
,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Thomas Samuel Farewell
,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Michael Farrell
, Little Bay,
Mary Bernice
, 1935.

John Foley
,
Annie Healey
, 1927.

Samuel Frank
, Lunenburg, N.S.,
Beatrice Beck
, 1935.

Ariel Green
,
Carrie Evelyn
, 1935.

James Hancock
, Pool Cove, Fortune Bay,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Murdock Hancock
, Pool Cove, Fortune Bay,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Benjamin Hannaram (Probably Hanrahan)
,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Charles Hanrahan
, Little Bay,
Annie Anita
, 1935.

Richard Hanrahan
, Little Bay,
Mary Bernice
, 1935.

James Hodder
,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Thomas Hodder
,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Archibald Keating
, Salt Pond Burin,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

John Kelly
,
Annie Healey
, 1927.

James King
,
Annie Healey
, 1927.

Dennis Long
, Fox Cove,
Mary Bernice
, 1935.

Fred Mansfield,
Captain, Hant's Harbour,
Carrie Evelyn
, 1935.

Edward Maxner
, Lunenburg, N.S.,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

William Maxner
, Lunenburg, N.S.,
Joyce M. Smith
, 1927.

George Mitchell
,
Annie Anita
, 1935.

John Mullins
, Captain, Fox Harbour, Placentia Bay,
Annie Healey
, 1927.

Michael Mullins
, Fox Harbour, Placentia Bay,
Annie Healey
, 1927.

John Pike
,
Joyce M. Smith
, 1927.

Thomas Poole
, Belloram,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Billy Reid
, Little Bay,
Mary Bernice
, 1935.

Thomas Reid
, Little Bay,
Annie Anita
, 1935.

Charles Sampson
,
Annie Healey
, 1927.

Elias Soper
,
Carrie Evelyn
, 1935.

Edgar Soper
,
Carrie Evelyn
, 1935.

Abram Tibbo
, Pushthrough,
Geneva Ethel
, 1935.

Dominic Walsh
, Little Bay,
Annie Anita
, 1935.

Frankie Walsh,
Marystown,
Annie Anita
, 1935.

James Walsh
, Captain, Marystown,
Mary Bernice
, 1935.

Jerome Walsh
, Marystown,
Annie Anita
, 1935.

Patrick Walsh
, Captain, Marystown,
Annie Anita
, 1935.

James Wareham,
1935.

James Warren
, Salt Pond Burin,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

Samuel Warren
, Salt Pond Burin,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

John Whalen
, Fox Cove, Burin,
Joyce M. Smith,
1927.

*While this list is intended to serve as a memorial to lost Banks fishermen, it is no way comprehensive; a complete list would include hundreds of names over many decades rather than the fifty-eight included here.