SS Sagona

SS Sagona was a passenger and freight ferry used by the Newfoundland government ferry service on its northern coastal routes between the island of Newfoundland and the coast of Labrador in Canada. Sagona was primarily a sealing vessel until 1938 bringing a total of 165,599 seals from 1912 until 1938 under captains Job Knee, Jack Randell, Lewis Little and Jacob Kean.

SS Sagona
History
Owner:
  • Newfoundland Produce Company (1912–1923)
  • Newfoundland Railway (1923–1941)
  • Colliford Clarke Company (1941–)
Builder: Dundee Ship Building Company
Launched: 1912
General characteristics
Tonnage: 808 GT
Length: 175 ft (53 m)

Sagona was built in 1912 at Scotland by the Dundee Ship Building Company. It was 175 feet (53 m) in length and could accommodate 50 salon and 40 steerage passengers. Its hull was made of steel with double rows of pitch pine that gave it ice breaking capacity. It was built for the Newfoundland Produce Company and arrived in St. John's on 14 March 1912 under the command of Captain Marshall. Sagona made its first trip to the seal hunt on 15 March 1912 under Captain S.R. Winsor.

In 1923, Sagona was acquired by the Newfoundland government as part of the arrangement that saw the Colony acquire the railway. Sagona helped in the rescue of survivors of SS Viking disaster in 1931. In 1941 the Newfoundland Railway sold Sagona to Colliford Clarke Company of London.

See also

References

  • Paddon, Harry; Rompkey, Ronald (2003). The Labrador Memoir of Dr Harry Paddon, 1912-1938. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 252. ISBN 0-7735-2505-X. Retrieved 2008-05-16.


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