| Summary: | ice n The first time I was shipwrecked I was twenty-four; that was the first spring I was to _the ice_.� We came home from Labrador; my father, he was skipper of the vessel.� When we went up to Brigus to _moor up_ the vessel�, the Vendetta, this vessel was over to the _government wharf_; so I went ove aboard her looking around. At that time it wouldn't be many three-masters[S]4[S] we used to see and I was interested in that stuff. The Captain was on deck--Captain Sam Nosewor- thy; I didn't know him just the same.[S]5[S] He said he was short of hands -- couldn't get a crew. I said, "Captain, what about a _berth_"[S]6[S]--this was about the twenty eight of October; she was going to Sydney7 for a load of coal; she was in the coal run see. He said "yes"; he told me the story; alll hands was _after_ leaving her, cook and all. She was an old vessel and they didn't like her; she DNE-cit PRINTED ITEM G.M.Story, 12/77 JH 12/77 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I ~ bird/candle/-chock/clamper/master/pan/pilot/pole/saw/blind(ness)/-block/-boat/-skiff/-cat/-claw/clumper/-fishing/-gall/gaze/-glim/-loom/-grip/-hunter/-hunting/-island/-jam/-line/captain/-line/-loom/-glim/-master/-pan/-partridge/-party/-pilot/pinnacle/ Checked by Sarah Budgell on Tue 24 Feb 2015
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