Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador, Vol. 4

Melvin Baker is an archivist and historian at Memorial University of
Newfoundland, and the co-editor of Dictionary of Newfoundland and
Labrador Biography.

This fourth volume in a series about Newfoundland’s maritime history
focuses on shipwrecks off the province’s coastline. Like its
predecessors, the book contains highly readable accounts of sea-going
disasters, from John Cabot’s shipwreck in 1498 to that of a fishing
trawler in 1966. Information about the shipwrecks, though sparse in the
early years, is drawn mainly from newspaper descriptions of each marine
disaster.

Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador, which includes a substantial
index, is popular history that will be appreciated by maritime history
scholars and general readers alike.