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SS Newfoundland
SS ''Newfoundland'' was a sealing ship which lost 78 sealers on the ice during extreme weather conditions in March 1914 which claimed lives from three sealing ships in an event known as the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster.
==1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster==
On March 30, 1914 ''Newfoundland'' was jammed in the ice. The Captain, Wes Kean, could see signals from ship SS Stephano, commanded by his father Abram Kean, indicating that there were seals several miles away. He sent his crew in that direction to begin killing seals, under command of his first mate, expecting that they would stay overnight in the ''Stephano'' if the weather worsened. When the men reached ''Stephano'', Abram Kean gave the ''Newfoundlands men lunch and then ordered them back on to the ice to kill seals and find the ''Newfoundland'' despite signs of worsening weather. As a storm began that afternoon, both the captain of ''Newfoundland'' and the captain of the nearby ''Stephano'' thought that the men were safely aboard the other man's vessel. The company which owned the ''Newfoundland'' had removed the ship's radio transceiver because it was an added expense which did not contribute to profits. ''Newfoundland''s captain, believing that the men were aboard ''Stephano'', did not blow the ship's whistle to signal his location which would have allowed his men to find the ship in the darkness and rain. The sealers endured two nights without shelter on the ice, first in a freezing rain storm and then in a snow storm. The dead and survivors alike were picked up approximately 48 hours later by another ship in the fleet, SS ''Bellaventure'', under Captain Isaac Randell. Of the 132 men aboard ''Newfoundland'', 78 died, and many more were seriously injured.
This disaster occurred during the same storm in which sank with all hands. The total loss from all three sealing ships totaled over 250 lives and the collective tragedy became known as the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster.
This event was the subject of the book ''Death on the Ice'' by Cassie Brown, and two National Film Board of Canada documentaries: ''"I Just Didn't Want to Die": The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster'' (1991) and the multimedia short ''54 Hours'' (2014).
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