Globe and Mail
bestselling author Robert C. Parsons presents more than fifty exciting stories
of high-seas adventure! Set mainly along the shores of Newfoundland and
Labrador in the 1800s and 1900s, these are true stories of men and women who
faced the deadly Atlantic Ocean – and won.
Featuring:
Ann Harvey of Isle aux Morts, a teenage girl who helped
rescue 160 passengers of the doomed brig Dispatch
in 1828
George Lake of Fortune, captain of the schooner George Ewart, who narrowly escaped
death when an iron steamer smashed into
his vessel off the coast of Spain in 1917
Captain Frank Poole of Belleoram and crew of the schooner Dorothy P. Sarty, who in 1954 were
shipwrecked and rowed twenty-five miles to shore in a lifeboat . . . And
even refused a lift from a passing coal carrier
Captain Arthur Jackman of Renews and crew of the Plover, who in 1890 were at death’s door
after the sinking of their steamship but were rescued in the nick of time
Henry Taylor of Newfoundland, captain of the barque Constance, who in 1884 was awarded by
the Italian Admiralty for rescuing three Italian harbour pilots
The forty-six men and seventeen women who miraculously
escaped the wreck of the steamer Capulet after it went aground at St. Shotts in
1896
. . . And many
more!
