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The Escuminac Hurricane (or Escuminac Disaster) is the name given for a rare June hurricane which struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence on the night of June 19 during the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season, sinking 22 fishing boats from the port of Escuminac, New Brunswick and drowning 35. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a scale classifying most Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the levels of tropical depression and tropical storm and thereby become hurricanes. ...
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Escumiac, (population, 242) is a fishing hamlet in Northumberland County, New Brunswickat the entrance to Miramichi Bay in eastern New Brunswick, Canada. ...
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Storm history
A tropical depression originated in the Gulf of Mexico on June 18. It moved quickly over Florida and reached tropical storm, then hurricane strength on the 19th. The storm became extratropical as it sped northwards, reaching its peak at 80 mph winds after becoming extratropical. Instead of curving out to sea, the storm looped westward into the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the night of the 19th. Here it stalled for about 12 hours before reversing its course and heading back out to sea on the 21st. Gulf of Mexico in 3D perspective. ...
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The Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the worlds largest estuary, is the outlet of North Americas Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. ...
The storm was not named, although modern analysis indicates it briefly reached hurricane strength before becoming extratropical.
Impact The cyclone struck at peak strength late in the evening of June 19. The commercial salmon fishing fleet had sailed from Escuminac to set their nets at the mouth of Miramichi Bay and drift with them until morning. June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ...
Binomial name Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758 Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, from the Latin words Salmo meaning salmon, and salar meaning leaper) is a fish species of the Salmonidae family found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and in rivers that flow into the Atlantic. ...
Miramichi Bay is an estuary located on the west coast of the Gulf of St. ...
The skies turned ominous shortly after supper that evening, and the storm hit with such ferocity that the shallow waters of the western Gulf of St. Lawrence were reportedly running between 50-60 feet in height. Unfortunately, the updated storm warnings had not been passed on from meteorologists to the fishing fleet because the boats had no radios.[citation needed]
Of the 54 boats which sailed from Escuminac, 22 were lost. Fishermen who survived the storm described the sheer terror of the experience to rescuers, Royal Canadian Air Force (from RCAF Station Chatham and RCAF Station Summerside) and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who mounted a search effort over the ensuing days. Relatives of the missing maintained a vigil on the shores of the Gulf as the news story of the search for survivors gripped Canadians across the country throughout the remaining days of June 1959. No hurricane since then has caused as many fatalities in Canada. The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was the air force of Canada from 1924 until 1968 when the three branches of the Canadian military were merged into the Canadian Armed Forces. ...
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Aftermath As the hopes of finding survivors dimmed, the small fishing community of Escuminac (pop. approximately 600) was faced with 19 widows and 76 fatherless children unprovided for. In addition to the loss of life, the loss of property was potentially disastrous to the entire region which saw infrastructure (such as wharves and breakwaters) damaged, vessels destroyed, and fishing gear (such as trawls and lobster traps) lost or damaged beyond repair.
A relief fund was established, and contributions came in from across Canada. Even the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, itself the victim of mining disasters in 1956 and 1958, sent 2 tons of food aid. Springhill is a small Canadian town in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. ...
The Springhill mining disaster is the term often used to refer to three separate Canadian mining disasters which occurred in 1891, 1956, and 1958 in different mines within the Springhill coal field, in close proximity to the town of Springhill in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. ...
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Both Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who were on a Royal Tour in another part of Canada at the time, expressed their sympathies and are reportedly the source of a large anonymous donation which was made to the relief fund in the days following the event. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), born 21 April 1926, is Queen of sixteen independent nations known as the Commonwealth Realms (and has previously been Queen of sixteen others). ...
The Duke of Edinburgh The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE, AC, QSO, PC (United Kingdom, Canada), GCL (Philip Mountbatten, formerly Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark) (born 10 June 1921) is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. ...
Today, the "Escuminac Disaster Monument" sits as a memorial on the shores of Escuminac Harbour, not far from the very wharf that the fleet sailed from. The monument carries the names of the 35 victims and this inscription:
- "In honour of the fishermen who lost their lives in the Escuminac disaster, June 20, 1959....Pour honorer la memoire des pecheurs qui ont perdu la vie dans la desastre Escuminac Le 20 juin, 1959."
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External links - "Lost at Sea" - Accounts of the Escuminac Disaster
- Escuminac Disaster - online museum
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