SS Newfoundland was a wooden-hulled brigantine and steamship that was built in 1872 and wrecked in 1916. She was a cargo ship , and for part of her career she was a sealing ship. In 1916 she was renamed Samuel Blandford .
16-457: Newfoundland was involved in two disasters. The first was the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, when 132 sealers were stranded on an ice floe , resulting in 78 deaths. The second was in 1916, shortly after she had been renamed, when she struck rocks and was wrecked. Peter Baldwin built Newfoundland in Quebec , completing her in 1872. Her registered length was 212.5 ft (64.8 m), her beam
32-680: A founding member and head of the Writers' Union of Canada , and holding the position of writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario and University of Waterloo . In 1980, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for his "contributions to Canadian literature". He lived his last twenty-five years in Annapolis Royal , Nova Scotia . He and his wife Cornelia (Corky), whom he married in 1972, had two children, Andrew and Leah. He died of cancer at
48-419: A sea captain. He was educated at Prince of Wales Collegiate and worked at various labouring jobs for a number of years, which eventually led him to become a labour organizer. Around the same time, he and his brother Charlie founded a literary magazine called Protocol . Beginning in 1948 he worked closely with Joey Smallwood in the campaign to bring Newfoundland into Confederation . From 1949 to 1951, he
64-565: A time when little literature had been produced in the province. However, as his political writing and some of his literature indicates, he did not always hold Newfoundland culture, particularly that of the ' outports ' or fishing villages, in high regard. During the 1960s he became an opponent of industrialization and began to interest himself in various 'counter-cultural' concerns. For a year he ran an alternative school in St. John's, known as "Animal Farm". Among Horwood's other accomplishments were being
80-442: Is a floating field of sea ice composed of several ice floes. They may cause ice jams on freshwater rivers, and in the open ocean may damage the hulls of ships. This oceanography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Harold Horwood Harold Andrew Horwood , CM (November 2, 1923 – April 16, 2006) was a Newfoundland and Labrador novelist , non-fiction writer and politician. He
96-528: The combined tragedy became known as the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster. In 1916 Samuel Blandford left New York with a cargo of coal bound for St John's. On August 3 she struck the Keys, near St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador and was wrecked. Cassie Brown and Harold Horwood wrote their 1972 book Death on the Ice about the 1914 disaster. The National Film Board of Canada has made three documentaries about
112-463: The disaster: The Icehunters in 1976, "I Just Didn't Want to Die": The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster in 1991, and the multimedia short 54 Hours in 2014. [REDACTED] Media related to Newfoundland (ship, 1872) at Wikimedia Commons Ice floe An ice floe ( / f l oʊ / ) is a large pack of floating ice often defined as a flat piece at least 20 m across at its widest point, and up to more than 10 km across. Drift ice
128-402: The ice to begin killing seals, commanded by his first officer , expecting that if the weather worsened they would stay overnight aboard Stephano . When the men reached Stephano , Abram Kean gave the men lunch and then ordered them back onto the ice to kill seals and find Newfoundland , despite signs of worsening weather. As a storm began that afternoon, the captains of both Newfoundland and
144-400: The nearby Stephano each thought the men were safely aboard the other man's vessel. Newfoundland ' s owners had removed the ship's wireless telegraph equipment because it was an expense that did not contribute to profits. Newfoundland ' s captain, believing the men were aboard Stephano , did not blow the ship's whistle to signal his location, which would have allowed his men to find
160-590: The ship in the darkness and rain. The sealers endured two nights without shelter, in first a freezing rain storm and then a snowstorm . The dead and survivors alike were rescued about 54 hours later by another ship in the fleet, Bellaventure , under Captain Isaac Randell . Of the 132 men aboard Newfoundland , 78 died, and many more were seriously injured. This disaster occurred in the same storm in which Southern Cross sank with all hands. The total loss from all three sealing ships totaled more than 250 lives, and
176-677: Was 29.5 ft (9.0 m), her depth was 23.3 ft (7.1 m) and her tonnages were 919 GRT and 568 NRT . She had two masts and was rigged as a brigantine. Newfoundland had a two-cylinder compound steam engine , built by the Ouseburn Engine Works of Newcastle upon Tyne , England, which powered her single screw . It was originally rated at "130 HP", but by 1903 it was rated at 162 NHP . James and Alexander Allan were Newfoundland ' s first owners. They registered her in Glasgow , Scotland. Her UK official number
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#1732890907743192-626: Was 66054 and her code letters were MCPB. In 1890 Allan Line re-registered Newfoundland in Montreal . In 1893 John H Anderson of Musquodoboit bought Newfoundland and re-registered her in Windsor, Nova Scotia . In 1900 JA Farquhar became her owner. In 1904 John Harvey bought her and re-registered her in St John's, Newfoundland . From 1907 her owner was the Steamship "Newfoundland" Sealing Co, Ltd, and AJ Harvey
208-479: Was a Member of the Order of Canada . The son of Andrew Horwood and Vina Maidment, Horwood was born in St. John's , Newfoundland . He experienced a love of literature from a young age and while still an adolescent had already decided on a literary career. He pursued this goal despite the objections of his parents, with whom he did not get along, drawing more inspiration from the life of his paternal grandfather, John Horwood,
224-520: Was a member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly , sitting as the member for Labrador for Smallwood's Liberals. After leaving politics he started writing a political column for the Evening Telegram newspaper. Though he supported Smallwood at first, by the mid-1950s he had become one of the premier's harshest critics. His first book, Tomorrow Will be Sunday , was published in 1966. Though it
240-429: Was a novel, Horwood acknowledged its autobiographical elements. The novel White Eskimo (1972), arguably his best-known work, was inspired in part by Esau Gillingham. All told, he wrote more than 20 books, including novels, history, natural history, biography, and autobiography. His contribution to Newfoundland literature does not consist only of the works he produced, but also in the example he provided to young writers at
256-538: Was her manager . By 1913 Newfoundland was equipped for wireless telegraphy . Her call sign was VOW. In 1916 William Davis of St John's, Newfoundland acquired Newfoundland , and she was renamed Samuel Blandford . On March 30, 1914, Newfoundland was trapped in ice off the northern coast of Newfoundland . Her captain, Wes Kean, could see signals from Stephano , commanded by his father Abram Kean , indicating that there were seals several miles away. The next morning, Wes Kean sent his crew in that direction across
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