Week of August 17 – Maritime History/Shipwrecks – Heather Elliott (guest editor)

Wikipedia Needs Assessment – Maritime History/Shipwrecks

A Selection of Existing Articles to Improve:

Argo: More citations can be added

SS Angle Saxon: Can be expanded and needs more citations

SS Arctic Disaster: Can add citations to the introduction

MS Arctic Explorer: Flagged as needing multiple improvements, including more citations and clearer language.

SS Caribou: Can be expanded and images added

SS City of Philadelphia: This article a stub and can be expanded.

Despatch (brig): This article is a stub and can be expanded

Dunbrody (1845): Needs more citations and can be expanded

MV Flare: Needs more citations and can be expanded

Phyllis (ship): Needs citations

USS Pollux (AKS-2): Needs more citations

USS Truxtun (DD-229): Needs more citations

MV William Carson: This article does not cite any sources. Please add citations to reliable sources.

Wreck of the RMS Titanic: Wikipedia has flagged this article because it has an unclear citation style and needs to be tidied up.

See more articles listed on Wikipedia on the page Category: Shipwrecks of the Newfoundland and Labrador Coast

Suggested New Articles to Create:
SS Marsland sank off of Fort Amherst in 1933.
Delmar a Scottish steamer that sank off Cape Race.
George Washington an American ship that wrecked near Cape Race. There was no trace of the wreck itself; locals recovered bodies/body parts and buried them in a grave along the shore.
Greenland a Canadian sealer that lost 48 men on the ice in 1898.
Harpooner a British transport that sank off Cape Race in 1816.
Harvest Home British the ship was wrecked while en route to Miramichi, NB from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
SS Labrador sprang a leak and was kept afloat for 30 hours before running aground at Branch in 1913.
Lady Sherbrooke (also written Sherbroke) a barque lost off Cape Ray in 1831.
SS Ethie ran aground off the west coast of Newfoundland
MV Administratrix collided with another vessel (Lovadal) near Cape Race.
SS Lord Strathcona one of the ore carriers torpedoed off of Bell Island.
SS Charcot driven ashore in Conception Harbour, Conception Bay. Her sisters Southern Foam and Sukha are also sunk in the harbour.

Online Resources on NL Maritime History/Shipwrecks

Alphabet Fleet
Atlantic Wrecks (Robert C. Parsons)
Dead Reckoning: The Pollux and Truxtun Disaster
Ghost Ships of Newfoundland and Labrador
Mercantile Navy list and Maritime directory
More Than a List of Crew (Maritime History Archive)
Newfoundland Shipwrecks 1800-1945 (Trinity)
Parmenter, Brenda. Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador : Selected Materials in the Newfoundland Collection, St. John's Public Libraries. St. John's, Nfld.: St. John's Public Libraries, Provincial Resource Library, 2002.
Ship Files in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies
ShipIndex.org
Shipping Records (Maritime History Archive)
“Shipwrecks” in Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador Volume 5, pp. 173-177.
Some Boats and Boatbuilders from Central Bonavista Bay
Traditional Boat Building of Winterton
White, Richard. Map Showing Position of Wrecks around the Coast [of Newfoundland] (1904)
Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador

Also consult Online Resources with Newfoundland and Labrador Content.

Recommended readings and potential citations for articles:

Andrieux, Jean-Pierre. Marine Disasters & Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador: Vol. 1, 1822-1938. St. John’s 1992.
Andrieux, Jean-Pierre. Marine Disasters & Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador: Vol. 2, 1939-1989. St. John’s 1992.
Andrieux, Jean-Pierre. Marine Disasters and Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador: Vol. 3, 1940-1980. St. John’s 1996.
Andrieux, Jean-Pierre. Marine Disasters of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John’s 1986.
Baehre, Rainer. Outrageous Seas: Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters off Newfoundland, 1583-1893. Montreal: Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.
Barron, David N. Atlantic Diver Guide, Volume I: Newfoundland and St. Pierre plus Atlantic Shipwreck List, 1565 to 1883. St. John’s 1988.
Barron, David N. The Combined Atlantic Diver Guide: Newfoundland, St. Pierre-Miquelon, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick. Halifax 1999.
Brown, Cassie. Writing the Sea. St. John's, Nfld.: Flanker Press, 2005.
Collins, Gary. The Gale of 1929. St. John's, NL: Flanker Press Limited, 2013.
Galgay, Frank, and Michael J. McCarthy. Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador. Volumes 1-5.
Galgay, Frank. Rocks Ahead! : Wrecks, Rescues and a Coffin Ship. St. John's, N.L.: Flanker, 2010.
Parsons, Robert Charles. Heroes of the Sea : Stories from the Atlantic Blue.
St. John's: Flanker Press Limited, 2016.
Parsons, Robert Charles. Sail the Wild Seas: Stories of the North Atlantic. St. John's: Flanker Press Limited, 2018.
Parsons, Robert Charles. Stories Once Told: More Tales from Our Ocean Heritage.
Grand Banks, NL : Books of the Sea, 2013.
Parsons, Robert Charles. Through Dangerous Waters: Writing the Atlantic. Grand Bank, N.L.: Books of the Sea, 2012.
More books by Robert Parsons listed here: http://www.atlanticwrecks.com/
Power, Rosalind. A Narrow Passage: Shipwrecks and Tragedies in the St. John's Narrows. St. John's, Nfld.: J. Blackwood & Associates, 2000.
Prim, Joseph, and Michael J. McCarthy. The Angry Seas: Shipwrecks on the Coast of Labrador. St. John's Nfld.: Jesperson, 1999.
Vautier, Clarence. Beneath the Waves: Newfoundland Sea Stories. St. John's, NL: Flanker, 2006.
Wells, Lisa Janice. Newfoundland Shipwrecks in the Late Nineteenth Century : Communities and Their Response (with Special Reference to Trepassey and Harbour Grace). 2002.

The Centre for Newfoundland Studies has a huge collection of files, books and articles on ships. Please contact cnsqeii@mun.ca for assistance.