Lost at Sea Volume Two Creative Publishers, St. John's 1992 To Order Book (Go to site) Robert Parsons - Newfoundland Author

"Truth is stranger than fiction" certainly applies to the adventures and misadventures of Newfoundland seamen. At the time of my research, Uncle William Baker had a keen mind filled with stories of shipwrecks. In great detail he described the abandoning of tern schooner General Trenchard in mid-Atlantic.

In another story, schooner Robert Max was stopped and shelled by a German sub, but not before several of her Newfoundland crew conversed with enemy tars. The enemy offered cigarettes and bon voyage before sinking Robert Max. Eleven days later, in an open boat, the Newfoundland sailors reached the Azores.

One of the most terrifying ordeals seamen face is fire at sea. On December 2, 1948, coasting vessel M and L Lodge burst into flames off Scaterie, Nova Scotia. At first it seemed as if the six seamen could battle the blaze but, evntually, oil and dry wood gave the advantage to the fire. For three hours as they fought the fire, the schooner drifted until she was over sixty miles away from land. Captain Grandy tells the story.

Dozens of sea stories packed in one hundred eighty pages of heroism and tragedy in Lost at Sea, Volume Two.