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  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.

  Acknowledgements

  This book came about because of the participation of many people. First of all, I wish to offer my deepest thanks to my husband Paul Butler. It is no exaggeration to say that without Paul’s encouragement and input this book would not exist.

  Thanks are also due to Garry Cranford, Margo Cranford, Jerry Cranford, and everyone at Flanker Press for their keen interest, and unflagging dedication and professionalism; my cousins Colleen Hanrahan, John Abbott, Art and Janice Cheeseman, Anne Spollen, and especially my aunt Jean Hanrahan.

  I am deeply grateful to my uncle, Vince Hanrahan, who was story consultant on this manuscript; my late cousins Jim, Steve, and Jerry Abbott; my late father, Patrick; my late aunt Monnie Cheeseman; my late aunt Elizabeth Bruce; and my aunt Bride Piazza; all of whom brought Richard, Steve, Elizabeth, and the rest of the family so vividly into my life for many years through their reminiscences and stories.

  I am particularly indebted to my late great-aunt Rachel Hanrahan Abbott and my late grandmother Angela Manning Hanrahan. It was my privilege to hear first-hand from these spirited women the stories of their lives, stories that reached into the 1890s.

  I also owe a debt of gratitude and much inspiration to several Newfoundland writers: Cassie Brown, author of Death on the Ice and Standing Into Danger; the compilers of the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Dictionary of Newfoundland English; Otto Kelland, author of Dories and Dorymen and the hauntingly beautiful hymn, “Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary’s”; Dr. Leslie Harris, author of Growing Up with Verse: A Child’s Life in Gallows Harbour and a number of lovingly written articles on Placentia Bay; Percy Janes, author of one of Newfoundland’s greatest novels, House of Hate; and meteorologist Bruce Whiffen for his fine series of articles on the weather of Newfoundland and Labrador.

  Last but not least, I would like to thank the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, and Word on the Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Maura Hanrahan is the award-winning author of nine books, including Domino: The Eskimo Coast Disaster, Tsunami: The Newfoundland Tidal Wave Disaster—a Canadian Bestseller—and the East Coast favourite, The Doryman. She works as an independent anthropologist on Aboriginal issues throughout Canada. From St. John’s, she co-owns HB Creativity, a full-service research and writing company. Maura has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.