Partanna
Schooner · Newfoundland · Lost 1936 · Newfoundland
The banking schooner Partanna sailed out with 25 men from the Burin Peninsula for a spring fishing trip in 1936 and simply never came back.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Partanna was a banking schooner built at Garnish on the Burin Peninsula during a 1930s boom in local shipbuilding. In April 1936, during what had been a bountiful fishing season, she sailed out with a crew of 25 men, most from Garnish and Grand Bank, for a spring fishing trip. She never returned, and no wreckage was ever conclusively identified. The disaster remains one of the Burin Peninsula's most remembered unsolved maritime losses.
Vessel
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- Garnish, Newfoundland
- Wood
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Loss
- April 1, 1936
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- At sea, likely off the Burin Peninsula or Grand Banks
- Atlantic Ocean
- Grand Bank, Newfoundland → Fishing grounds
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- 25
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The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Grand Bank, Newfoundland
Evidence
Overall confidence: Sparsely documented (50/100)
The vessel's dimensions, builder, and precise date and location of loss are not established in the sources reviewed.
CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador
Crew list, home communities, build location, and the unresolved nature of the loss.
