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Forty-eight days adrift: the voyage of the "Neptune II"
from Newfoundland to Scotland
(excerpts of Newfoundland names)
Barbour, Capt. Job. 1981. [originally published 1932] Forty-eight days adrift: the voyage of the "Neptune II" from Newfoundland to Scotland. Breakwater Books Ltd. 220 pp. Barbour was captain of a schooner from Newtown, B.B. In late November 1929, while returning to Newtown from St. John's, his ship was struck by the first of a series of hurricanes and storms. Unable to return to Newfoundland, he continued east and landed in Scotland. Newfoundlanders listed, many only briefly:
Barbour - Alphaeus, Baxter, Ben, George, Isaac, James, Job K.(Capt.), Leslie D., Manuel (Capt.),Pearce, Percy, Samuel, Stanley, Thomas, Wilfred, William Benson - (Capt.) Bishop - Eldon (Capt.), John (Capt.) Blackmore - Ephraim Bungay - George Cotton - Walter W. (Rev.) Davis - George, Moses Gabriel - (Rev.) Gill - Edward Goobie - W.B. Green - Dan Hall - Eli, James Stephen Hefferton - Ned Hickman - A.E. Humphries - Esther, George, Peter, Tom Job - R.B., W.C. Johnston - D. Kean - Charles (Capt.) Keats - Harold Knee - Job Maley - E.A. (Rev.) Milley - Samuel Morris - Edward (Lord) Norman - John Norris - Job, William Parsons - Rex Rogers - (Capt.) Sainsbury - John Tuff - George Winsor - Abram (Capt.) Wood - Walter (Rev.) |
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