S.S. Caribou survivors list
Douglas K. Gibbons
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ae050/victims.html
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ae050/survivors.html
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S.S. Caribou - survivors list
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S. S. Caribou - names of 67 of the 102 persons who survived
the sinking of the S.S. Caribou, October 14, 1942 near Port
aux Basques, Newfoundland as a result of enemy submarine
action.
104 people survived the sinking, 2 of whom died enroute to
Sydney, Nova Scotia aboard the HMCS Grandmere (James Cuthbert,
Captain).
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in
deep waters see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the
deep.
Crew Members
Alex Bateman (Steward, from Channel (Port aux
Basques).
William Currie
Ernest Dominie
John Dominie
Thomas P. Fleming (only S.S. Caribou officer to
survive the sinking).
Charles Ford Jr.
Martin Hickey
Harold Jeans (possibly Janes).
John Matthews
Cyril Melbourne
William Pearcey Jr.
William Pearcey Sr. (World War 1 Prisoner of War
for 20 months).
Freeman Skeard
Earl Spencer
James Spencer
(15 total)
Royal Navy
Fred Abbott
Eric Andrews
Arthur Barry
Harvey Brown
Bob Clarke
Hedley Lake
Percy Moores
Max Piercy
Fred Samms
Kelvin Webb
Cyril White
(11 total) [26]
Title/Class generally unknown
Gerald Bastow
Nursing Sister Margaret Brookes (awarded the
O.B.E. for her unsuccessful effort to save her
friend Miss A. (Agnes) W. Wilkie).
John H. Barrett
Aloysius Bourque
Harry Brown
Bob Butt
Alfred Fielding
Ira Hickey
Roy McCabe
Lloyd McCauley
Lorne Monkley
Billie Morgan
Jack O'Brien
Ralph Rogers (Petty Officer, credited with
saving
Baby Leonard Shiers - see below).
W. B. Rouse (R.C.M.P. Corporal, returning to
Newfoundland to be married).
George Smothers (U.S. Navy, cook, from Toledo,
Ohio).
(Total 16) [42]
Civilians
Uriah Bailey
Mrs. M. Barrett
Harold B. Beatty
John Danson
Mrs. Zoe Fielding
Leonard Gosse (from Grand Falls, teenager).
John Hatcher
Mrs. Media Hillier
William J. Lundrigan (founder of W. J. Lundrigan
Ltd., later Lundrigans, Ltd., of Corner Brook).
Mrs. Clara (James T.) May (of Belloram,
Newfoundland).
Herbert May
William Metcalf (possibly Metcalfe, from Glace
Bay, Nova Scotia).
John Charles Moore (possibly Moores, Ticket
Agent
with the Newfoundland Railway, from St. John's).
Robert Newman
Miss E. Northcott
Howard H. Porter
Jerome J. Ryan
Mrs. Gladys Shiers
Leonard Shiers (son of Mrs. Glady Shiers and the
only infant to survive the sinking).
Ivan Starks
William Strickland
Miss Vivian Swinamer
Nathan Walters
John J. Weisansal
Howard Yorke
(Total 25) [67] There were 35 other survivors,
names not available (102).