Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Brookes Scrapbooks, 1967, p. 8

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/ te 28 Hamilton Spectator, Thursday, February 23, 1967 Death!1V The trawler Cape Bonnie lies hard aground on a ledge just off the entrance to Halifax Harbor where she grounded early Tuesday. Eighteen men died in the grounding, 20 miles from the vessel's home w h a.r f. Wild seas prevented rescue ships from reaching the trawler. —CP Heavy Seas^ Claim Ship. Crew SafeV^r HALIFAX (CP) - The 79-foot coastal schooner Maureen and Michael sank in heavy seas south of Newfoundland today, but all eight crew members were picked up by a United States Coast Guard cutter. The schooner in a distress signal yesterday said she was taking water in heavy seas. Six other vessels surrounded the vessel overnight. But five of them later returned to port. A RISING tide and a line from shore today freed the CNR freight ferry Patrick Morris from a harbor shoal in Port aux Basques, Nfld. Gales up to 110 miles an hour snapped the freighter's moorings yesterday, driving her into the passenger ferry William Carson and then aground. A CNR spokesman said there were no injuries and damage 1 was superficial. At Lower Prospect, near Halifax, the search continued today for the last of 18 men lost Tuesday when the trawler Cape Bonnie crashed on a rocky ledge- &*./ &*

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