AH-WR-1398

Marion Rogers

Schooner · Newfoundland · Lost 1938 · Newfoundland

A Trinity Bay coasting schooner vanished with all hands in a November 1938 storm; only drifting wreckage and a passenger's suitcase told of her fate.

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Artistic recreation based on recorded historical documents. See the documented evidence.

Interpretive Reconstruction, drawn to convey the vessel's era, type and general form. See the documented evidence.

The Vessel and Her Loss

Marion Rogers was a wooden coasting schooner expected home in Trinity, Trinity Bay, on the night of 27 November 1938. A winter storm blew up, and when she failed to arrive, residents found debris and a passenger's suitcase washed ashore the following morning. Wreckage scattered for miles along the coast indicated the schooner had gone down near Fort Point, likely striking a reef known locally as Skerwink. No survivors were found and no bodies recovered.

Vessel

Built: Not established
Builder: Not established
Yard: Not established
Material: Wood
Length: Not established
Beam: Not established
Tonnage: Not established
Propulsion: Sail
Owners: Not established

Loss

Date: November 27, 1938
Cause: Storm
Location: Near Fort Point, Trinity, Trinity Bay
Water: Trinity Bay
Voyage: Trinity, Newfoundland
Cargo: Not established
Aboard: Not established
Lives lost: Lost with all hands; the exact number of crew and passengers aboard, including passenger Edward McGrath, was not established in the sources reviewed.
Master: Not established