Disasters at Sea! This page contains stories of shipwrecks that occured in the Rose Blanche area and disasters at sea that have a Rose Blanche and surrounding area connection.

This is a story about the M.V. Danny Goodwin a skiff that was lost in a storm fishing off Rose Blanche on the lucrative fishing grounds known as Rose Blanche Bank. This is a story about the loss of the M.V. Barbara and Ronnie as it made its way home to Petites, Newfoundland from the fall fishing grounds off Cape Breton, Nove Scotia. This is a story of how a crewmember of the Forest Hills was lost returning home to West Point from a trip to take the magistrate to Burgeo. This story is about the Monica Hartery, a schooner that was wrecked in a storm off Rose Blanche while transporting coal from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. This story is about the Geneva Herridge, a skiff that was lost crossing the Cabot Strait from Harbour le Cou to Cape Breton in 1918.

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