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Photo Title:	"Hazel Trahey"
Description:	Image of the "Hazel Trahey" moored in an unidentified port.
Image No.:	PF-343.0044
Image Location:	munn-godden/pf343_0044.jpg
Date of Creation:	[between 1910 and 1926]
Physical Description:	1 glass plate negative : b&w ; 12.5 X 17.5 cm; 3 photographs : b&w ; 10.8 X 17.2 cm
Biography/Admin History:	The schooner "Hazel Trahey", official number 126593, gross tonnage 165, was built in 1910 by John H. Trahey at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia and registered to Josiah Soley of nearby Lower Economy. Soley appears not to have had great success with the vessel. On February 27, 1912, while on return voyage from Parrsboro to Boston, Massachusetts, and under the command of Captain D. Morrissey, it was stranded in the Bay of Fundy at or near Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick. On July 12, the following year, while on a Parrsboro to Barbados voyage under Captain H.C. Richard, the vessel suffered a collision with the steamship "Indrani" 60 miles off Sambro Head, near Halifax, Nova Scotia. By 1914 it was registered at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to William Reinhardt of nearby La Have. In 1917 the "Hazel Trahey" was registered to merchant Walter Baine Grieve of St. John's, Newfoundland and operated by Baine Johnston and Company. The vessel arrived in Newfoundland as a two-masted schooner; however, Baine Johnston soon converted it to a three masted tern schooner which was more suitable for sailing in the North Atlantic. The company used the vessel to transport saltfish to European markets and salt to Newfoundland. It was on one of these voyages under Captain Hodginson in September, 1926 that the vessel encountered difficulties. Having delivered its cargo of saltfish to the Mediterranean and retrieved a load of salt at Cadiz, Spain for Baine Johnston's branch operation in Battle Harbour, Labrador, the vessel suffered damage in a hurricane and began to leak badly. The captain and crew struggled for several days to keep the vessel afloat, before abandoning it and being rescued by the S.S. "Adalusia" (possibly "Adalusian", official number 140557).
Custodial History:	The photographs were owned by Norma Godden, formerly of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland
Collector:	Norma Godden
Source Donor:	Norma Godden
Collection Title:	Munn-Godden Collection
Restrictions on Access:	Copyright expired
Copyright:	p
Notes:	The glass plate was taken before 1940.
Subjects:	Hazel Trahey (Schooner) / Schooners.