Strange Tales from Nova Scotia to Cape HatterasDodd, Mead, 1949 - 322 pages Twenty-three stories of shipwreck, rescues, mutinies, and murders, collected by the author while on a hiking tour. |
Contents
Grand Manan Island and the Miracle of the Cliff | 3 |
Wrecks Off Cape Sable | 16 |
Evangeline and the Tragedy of Acadia | 37 |
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Aaron Burr aboard Acadians Amherst anchor Andros ashore beach began Blackburn Block Island boat Boston bottom breeches buoy British Cape Cod Captain captured Castin cliff climbed crew deck door dory England Evangeline feet finally fire forecastle French gale Gay Head ghost Gloucester Grand Manan Grand Manan Island Grand Pré guns Harbor heard hike Hontvet Howard Blackburn Hubbell hundred Indians ironclad Isles of Shoals John Paul Jones Jones Keeper land Lawson lifeboat Light lighthouse lightship Louis Louis Wagner Maren mate Merrimac miles Monitor morning Nantucket Nantucket Lightship never night Nova Scotia Number o'clock ocean Palatine Pentagoet pirates Point Shirley Portland Portsmouth reached rescue returned Rock rowed sailed sailors Saint John Sandy Hook schooner ship shipwreck Shoals shore short time later Smuttynose snow soon Squalus station steamer storm story Theodosia Theodosia Burr told took vessel visited Wagner walked wave wind wreck York