Posts Tagged ‘1935 Placentia Bay shipping disaster’

Forty Fishermen

Saturday, March 16th, 2013

A field recording of this song can be found at the MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada website.

August Gale (Anonymous)

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

August Gale (Wilson)

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

1935 August Gale

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

On August 24, The Daily News printed the following forecast for Newfoundland: “Moderate winds, cloudy, with occasional rain and probably some fog on southwest coast” (1935, p. 4). What materialized…