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Marine Heritage Database
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Typical Profile
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Tonnage
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99
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Length(ft)
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96.8
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Breadth(ft)
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24.8
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Depth(ft)
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10
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Masts
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Decks
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Hull
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Wood
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Shipwreck Details
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Description
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Custom-built for sealing, the schooner AGNES G.DONAHUE had a reputation as a very sturdy and reliable vessel. Despite her small size, she made voyages around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope in a sealing career with remarkable adventures, a record as varied as a tale of the Spanish Main according to a Halifax newspaper article on her sinking. She went sealing as far away as Norway, South America and the Indian Ocean. In the 1907-08 season she made record catches and rescued the crew of the Norwegian sealer SOLGLINT. In 1905 she was seized by the government of Uruguay and her crew imprisoned for improper sealing but they were eventually released. As international sealing declined, she was purchased by the Nova Scotia Clay Works for shipping bricks from the Annapolis Basin.
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Story
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At the height of a heavy storm which swept Annapolis Basin on Monday night the schooner, brick laden from the Nova Scotia Clay Works of Annapolis, and bound for Saint John, was beating out the gap. She sprang a leak, became unmanageable and piled up on the shores of the gap, not far from the lighthouse. Her crew of seven men were all saved, due largely to the prompt aid rendered them by the life saving station at the lighthouse.Halifax Herald 10 September 1913. DONAHUE's wreck was close enough for easy access by sightseers and photographers from Digby. A number of dramatic pictures of her wreck, held firmly in the surf by its heavy cargo, combined with a notable sealing career, made her a memorable wreck. "The picture of the DONAHUE's last days made me feel sorry for the noble old schooner. She deserved better than to go down with a load of bricks." Letter from former captain Charles Leblanc of Arichat March 23, 1951.
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Vessel Type
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Schooner, General Cargo, Sealer
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Type of Event
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Loss
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Nature of Event
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Wrecked
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Cause of Event
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Unknown
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Date of Wreck
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1913-09-09
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Location
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Point Prim
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Cargo
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Bricks, about 100,000
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Lives Lost
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Voyage from
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Annapolis, Nova Scotia , Canada
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Voyage to
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Saint John, New Brunswick , Canada
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Remarks
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Total Loss.
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Ship Construction
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Built at
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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia , Canada
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Date
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1903
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Official Number
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116492
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Registered at
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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia , Canada
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Date
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Propulsion
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Sail
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Rig
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Schooner
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Details
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