“The Ravenal”
Description
The trawler Ravenal, returning to St Pierre from the Grand Banks, is lost in a storm. "Wreckage was found on Lorie's shore. She may have struck a sunker, but such things we'll never know; We only know her eighteen men died in the waters cold"
Notes
Lories Beach is in Placentia Bay on the south Newfoundland coast.
Sunker: "A submerged rock over which the sea breaks, familiar form of SUNKEN ROCK, BREAKER, GROUNDER" (Source: _Dictionary of Newfoundland English_ at site of Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage). - BS
Historical references
- Jan 31, 1962 - Ravenal is "missing. Presumed iced up & capsized" (Northern Shipwrecks Database)
Cross references
- cf. "The Schooner Marion Rogers" (tune)
References
- Lehr/Best 92, "The Ravenal" (1 text, 1 tune)
- BI, LeBe092