It is always a pleasure to contribute in some small measure to the heritage aspect of this wonderful website.
Many of my relatives, both paternal and maternal, who migrated to the States, stayed, and made their homes there. My dad was over there off and on about five years, trying his hand at a number of jobs, including working on the construction of the Cape Cod Canal. In the course of my seafaring, I have transitted the Canal many times, and would always recall the stories my dad would relate about those years.
On the night of the Titanic disaster he was on Grand Bank in the Gloucester fishing schooner John R. Bradley, which was skippered by a Baptist deacon named Dan Ryder, less than 100 miles from the Titanic's position.
The crew of the Bradley knew nothing of the accident until they went in to Bay Bulls, NL., for fresh bait, late in May.
Best regards
Don.
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