Posts Tagged ‘ss ethie’

Allison Crowe’s “The Water Witch”

Sunday, December 21st, 2014

Singer-songwriter Allison Crowe, originally from BC but now living in Corner Brook, NL, recently reached out to let me know that she had recorded a new version of “The Water…

The Wreck of the SS Ethie

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

A version of this song by Graham Wells can be heard here. The Wreck of the SS Ethie

1919 SS Ethie

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

At 8 AM, December 10th, 1919, the S.S. Ethie departed Port Saunders. The seas along the west coast of Newfoundland were smooth that day. However, around 6 PM, a storm…