Nova Scotia & Sable Island
Halifax approaches, Cape Sable and the Graveyard of the Atlantic
Nova Scotia's coast and the shifting sandbars of Sable Island lie directly across the great circle route between Europe and North America.
Sable Island alone is credited with hundreds of wrecks, and the Halifax approaches hold losses from the Revolutionary wars to the twentieth century.
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Records in These Waters
AvailableArethusa
AH-WR-1447Nova Scotia shore (exact locality not established)
Lost some years after her 1923 capture, in the later 1920s, reportedly on the Nova Scotia coast · Schooner
AvailableAstrea
AH-WR-1392Little Lorraine, Cape Breton Island
1834 · Merchant Sailing Ship
RegisteredAuguste
AH-WR-1386Dingwall, Aspy Bay, Cape Breton
1761 · Full-Rigged Ship · 12 ft deep
AvailableCatherine
AH-WR-1852Canso, Nova Scotia
1933 · Auxiliary Fishing Schooner
AvailableColumbia
AH-WR-1825Sable Island, Nova Scotia
August 1927; exact day uncertain in the accounts reviewed. · Fishing Schooner
AvailableCrofton Hall
AH-WR-1217Sable Island, Nova Scotia
1898 · Sailing Barque
Historical ListingDelight
AH-WR-1391Sable Island, Nova Scotia
1583 · Sailing Ship · 33 ft deep
AvailableEsperanto
AH-WR-2037Sable Island, Nova Scotia
1921 · Fishing Schooner
AvailableFlora Alberta
AH-WR-2039Halifax, Nova Scotia
1943 · Fishing Schooner
AvailableGovernor Cornwallis
AH-WR-2048Halifax, Nova Scotia
1944 · Ferry
AvailableHelen Miller Gould
AH-WR-2038North Sydney, Nova Scotia
1901 · Fishing Schooner
Historical ListingHMCS Clayoquot
AH-WR-1388Sambro, Halifax approaches
1944 · Minesweeper
Historical ListingHMCS Esquimalt
AH-WR-1387Chebucto Head, Halifax approaches
1945 · Minesweeper
AvailableHMHS Letitia
AH-WR-1222Portuguese Cove, near Halifax, Nova Scotia
1917 · Hospital Ship
Historical ListingHMS Barbadoes
AH-WR-1219Sable Island, Nova Scotia
1812 · Frigate
Historical ListingHMS Fantome
AH-WR-1211Prospect, Nova Scotia
1814 · Brig-Sloop
Historical ListingHMS Feversham
AH-WR-1385Scatarie Island, Cape Breton
1711 · Fifth-Rate Frigate
Historical ListingHMS Tribune
AH-WR-1210Herring Cove, near Halifax, Nova Scotia
1797 · Frigate
AvailableKismet II
AH-WR-1390Meat Cove, Cape Breton Island
1955 · Cargo Steamer
Historical ListingLe Chameau
AH-WR-1209Near Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island
1725 · Naval Transport (FlûTe)
AvailableLena F. Oxner
AH-WR-1858Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Late December 1916. Rescue December 29 derived from Friday, last under January 3, 1917 heading; foundered soon afterward, exact sinking day not independently stated. · Schooner
AvailableLord Clarendon
AH-WR-2041Sydney, Nova Scotia
1851 · Ship
AvailableManhasset
AH-WR-1389Sable Island, Nova Scotia
1947 · Cargo Ship
AvailableMargaret Jane
AH-WR-2045Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
1980 · Stern Trawler
AvailableMary F. Curtis
AH-WR-1851Roseway Island, near Shelburne
1952 · Auxiliary Fishing Dragger
AvailableNicosia
AH-WR-1215Sable Island, Nova Scotia
1894 · Sailing Barque
AvailableOlivia Brown
AH-WR-1854Seal Island, southwestern Nova Scotia
1953 · Fishing Dragger
Historical ListingPrudent
AH-WR-1220Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
1758 · Ship Of The Line
AvailableSaladin
AH-WR-2042Seal Harbour, Nova Scotia
1844 · Bark (or Barque)
AvailableSkidby
AH-WR-1218Sable Island, Nova Scotia
1905 · Steamship
RegisteredSS Atlantic
AH-WR-1208Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia
1873 · Ocean Liner
AvailableSS Humboldt
AH-WR-1212Portuguese Cove, near Halifax, Nova Scotia
1853 · Ocean Liner
RegisteredSS Hungarian
AH-WR-1213Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia
1860 · Ocean Liner
AvailableSS La Bourgogne
AH-WR-1216Sable Island, Nova Scotia
1898 · Ocean Liner
AvailableSS Mont-Blanc
AH-WR-1221Halifax, Nova Scotia
1917 · Cargo Steamship
AvailableState of Virginia
AH-WR-1214Sable Island, Nova Scotia
1879 · Steamship
AvailableTrongate
AH-WR-1393Halifax Harbour, near George's Island
1942 · Cargo Freighter
AvailableYoung Teazer
AH-WR-1384Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
1813 · Privateer Schooner
