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NOVADOC FEARED LOST WITH 25 ABOARD
| [Welland Tribune March 5, 1947] |
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Montreal, March 5 — (CP)—The Paterson Steamship Line, owners of the freighter Novadoc, missing three days off the New England coast in a gale, announced today the names of 17 members of the crew, and reported word was await- ed from the Digby, N.S., shipping master for names of “five or six others”. Six of the persons listed are from Montreal and district, five from Ontario, four from Nova Scotia, and two addresses unknown. The Ontario list: Second Engineer William Chris- tie. Paisley, Ont.; Oiler Roderick McLean, Glen Robertson, Ont.; |
| Montreal, March 5- The Paterson Steamship Line, owners of the freighter Novadoc, missing three days off the New England coast, in a gale, announced today the names of 17 members of the crew, and reported word was awaiting from the Digby, N.S., shipping master for names of five or six others.
Six of the persons listed are from Montreal and district, five from Ontario, four from Nova Scotia, and two addresses unknown. The Ontario list: I.C. McEwen, operating manager in Montreal for the Paterson Line, called for a search from Cape Cod to New York, but there was also belief that Capt. Vallis may have turned out to sea to escape the storm. The last message from Capt. Vallis was at 2.17 a.m. Monday. It said:’We are 22 miles off Portland, and have one of our hatches stove in. We are shipping quite a bit of water and are now running before the wind to keep it out. Would like to have a coastguard ship stand by until we reach port.” He did not name the port, but it may have been New York, the Novadoc’s destination. Feared Lost The United States coast guard covered 10,000 square miles by ship and aircraft in two days, searching for the vessel, and last night Lt-Cmdr, Gerge V. Stepanoff, commander of the cutter Algonquin, said on his return to Portland, Me; “I think she foundered and all hands are lost.” The Novadoc, out of Digby, N.S. with a cargo of gypsum for New York, was last heard from Sunday when she radioed she was 25 miles east of Portland with one cargo hatch torn away. She was running before ponderous seas in an effort to keep the deck free of water. The 2,227-ton 248 foot vessel was under the command of Capt. A.J. Vallis of Montreal. Disappearance of the Novadoc provided the second sea mystery of the winter off the stormy New England coast. The Boston fishing trawler Belle vanished Jan 9, after reporting she was in distress in heavy weather. |
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