“The Loss of the Barbara and Ronnie”

Description

"In the spring of fifty-one" Walter Bond commands the "Barbara Ann Ronney from Petites in Newfoundland." Sailing home near Christmas they are caught and sank with a crew of five sharemen when "on the eighteenth of December the winter hurricane blew"

Notes

The _Barbara and Ronnie_ was missing and presumed sunk in Glace Bay in the Gulf of St Lawrence December 18, 1951 (Northern Shipwrecks Database). - BS

References

  1. Peacock, pp. 937-938, "The Loss of the Barbara Ann Ronney" (1 text, 1 tune)
  2. Roud #9813
  3. BI, Pea937

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1959 (Peacock)
Found in: Canada(Newf)