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On the night of December 6, 1926, during a blinding snowstorm, a schooner out of Port Nelson, ?xml:namespace prefix="st1" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, ran into the rugged cliffs just north of Little Catalina. Of the nine crew members, seven men and one woman perished, while one man, the captain’s son, astonishingly survived. This is the amazing true story of the Ella M. Rudolph and her crew.

Bruce Stagg is the author of three books of fictional short stories, one children’s book, one book of plays, and many individual plays. He is known as a storyteller/entertainer and has released a storytelling CD. His one other book of non-fiction, The Blackwood Schooner, is a Canadian Bestseller that was published in 2009 by Flanker Press and was very well received by readers.Bruce was born and grew up in Catalina, Trinity Bay. He graduated from Memorial University in 1974 and taught in Newfoundland schools for thirty years. He currently resides in Hillview, Trinity Bay, with his wife, Dale, where he dedicates much of his time to writing.

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