From the first explorers to Newfoundland to today we all have an attachment in once way or another to the sea.
Many ships have met their doom in the water. Here is a lost of 10 Newfoundland shipwrecks.
The SS Anglo Saxon was a British Allan liner that ran aground off Cape Race, with 237 deaths on April 27, 1863.
The USS Pollux and USS Truxtun sank during a storm on February 18, 1942.
Ocean Ranger was a semi-submersible offshore oil drilling unit that sank in a storm off St. John's on February 15, 1982.
SS Ethie sank in 1919. It was a coastal steamship that ran aground in a fierce storm.
The MV William Carson , a Canadian National ferry, struck an iceberg on 3 June 1977.
HMCS Shawinigan was torpedoed by U-1228 off Channel-Port aux Basques on 25 November 1944.
The HMS Raleigh, a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser, sank in fog at Point Amour in Strait of Belle Isle on August 8, 1922.
SS Kyle known by Newfoundlanders as the "Bulldog of the North" was both a supply ship and a troopship that ran aground in Harbour Grace on February 4, 1967.
The SS Caribou was torpedoed by U-69 off Port aux Basques on 14 October 1942. The ship was a Newfoundland Railway ferry.
In 1875 A barque named Dunbrody foundered off the Labrador coast.