Dorchester was a War Shipping Administration troop ship operated by its agent Agwilines allocated to United States Army requirements that was sunk in the Labrador Sea by a torpedo from a German U-boat on February 3, 1943, during World War II.
SS Santa Rita was a refrigerated cargo ship built for the United States Maritime Commission by Federal Shipbuilding of Kearny, New Jersey in 1941. Operated by the Grace Line, Santa Rita en route from Cape Town to Charleston, South Carolina, when she…
Fischot Island was a former Island community just outside the town of St. Anthony and Goose Cove. It had a population of 48 in 1935. The people who once lived there on the 1.3 km (0.81 mi) round island, all resettled to new towns in search of work a…