Newfoundland dogs make great rescue dogs Ann Harvey, Hairyman, and Isle aux Morts Each year, the Gros Morne Theatre Festival in Cow Head offers a retelling of this tale in their dinner theatre entitled The Wreck of The SS Ethie. The baby was saved by the quick thinking of the ship’s young Purser, Walter Young. This folktale, while intriguing, was later proved false. Rumour has it that a dog took a mailbag to shore with a very special delivery inside - an infant. From this wreck came one of many longstanding folktales about the Newfoundland dog. Largely due to citizens of Martin’s Point, and the crew aboard the SS Ethie, led by the heroic Captain English. What makes this wreck different than most is that nobody perished. The ship eventually ran aground at Martin’s Point, South of Cow Head. On December 11th, 1919, the boat was surprised by a gale while making the journey from Daniel’s Harbour to Cow Head.
While in the waters off Newfoundland she managed to escape a German U-Boat attack, however met her match on the rocks of the Great Northern Peninsula, where she still stands.įurther down the peninsula, in Gros Morne National Park, SS Ethie was a steamship that was tasked with bringing freight, mail, and passengers up and down the Great Northern Peninsula and the Labrador Strait. She was docked in Liverpool in 1940 when Italy declared war on Britain, that’s when she was seized and renamed Empire Energy. Originally a German ship called The Grete, when it was built in 1923, it was sold to the Italians in 1932 and renamed Gabbiano, or seagull in English. On the tip of the Northern Peninsula at Big Brook, you’ll find the Empire Energy. Travellers to the Burin Peninsula can learn more about the story of the USS Truxtun and USS Pollux through Laurentian Legacy Tours, and learn more about some of the men that participated in the rescue, many of them miners, at the St. King and that's because of the change they did for me in St. "They changed my way of thinking and it erased all of the hatred within me… Because of that tragedy, I joined up with Dr. Lawrence and spoke often about his life-changing experience in the town. Lanier became a great ambassador for the Town of St. He was treated with such dignity and respect that it changed his life forever, and he became a staunch advocate and leader in the civil rights movement. One surviving sailor was Lanier Philips, an 18-year-old African American man who had grown up in the segregated American south. This disaster remains one of the largest losses of life in a non-combatant accident. The USS Pollux had 233 men on board, 93 lost and 140 saved. The USS Truxtun had a compliment of 156 men, 110 lost, 46 saved. The USS Wilkes was fortunate to self-rescue and make the trip to Argentia, The USS Truxtun and USS Pollux were smashed to pieces upon the rocks and lost. 186 sailors were saved but unfortunately 203 souls were lost. Lawrence and the small neighbouring community of Lawn sprung into action to help the sailors reach the shore. When the vessels struck the rocks in the dead of night, citizens from St. Lawrence off the province’s Burin Peninsula.
They were caught in a brutal winter storm, and along the way they ran aground in Chamber Cove, just outside of St. Their mission was to deliver supplies to the American Air and Navy Base in Argentia, NL from Cascoe Bay, Maine. On Februa convoy of three American Navy vessels, the USS Truxtun, the USS Wilkes, and the USS Pollux, ran ashore on the rugged coast of the Burin Peninsula just west of St. Ocean Quest Bell Island Diving offers visitors an opportunity each year to go beneath and see these vessels up close and personal, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity you’ll not soon forget. A monument in Lance Cove stands in memory of this stark reality of war. The SS Saganaga, SS Lord Strathcona, SS Rose Castle and Paris-Lyons-Méditerranée 27 were all lost, along with dozens of sailors. In the autumn of 1942, German U-Boats targeted and sank three iron ore carriers off the coast of Bell Island in Conception Bay, just off-shore of St. World War II was a war that touched everyone in every corner of the globe. You can walk the Raleigh Trail and see the spot where that ship met its demise. Another ship, the HMS Raleigh ran aground in thick fog at L’Anse-Amour back in 1919 by Captain Sir Arthur Bromley. Eventually she wound up off the coast of Labrador, and in 1888 wrecked near the Point Amour Lighthouse. Labrador is home to many wrecks the HMS Lily was an Arab-class composite gun vessel that was originally built for the Royal Navy back in 1874.
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