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- ↑ Jarvis, Dale (30 April 2012). "Ship's sinking attracts lots of strange tales". The Telegram. Retrieved 17 April 2022– via PressReader.
- ↑ Hollett, Calvin (2016). Beating against the Wind: Popular Opposition to Bishop Feild and Tractarianism in Newfoundland and Labrador. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-7735-4736-0.
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