Below normal -1. (M).
SS “Hope” while at the ice fields in the Gulf was driven ashore on the Magdalen Islands and lost. (SR).
NYMR (except as noted):
February
March
Mar 14 The Newfoundland Railway Steamship Co. “Bruce” arrived at St. John’s from North Sydney and reported having passed 100m of ice coming out of the Gulf, which would be in the track of shipping within a few days. Ice was also filling the northern bays and icebergs will soon obstruct the steamer route off Cape Race.
Mar 16 4505’N 5741’W some field ice.
Mar 20 Heavy close packed ice fields are now moving off the coast of Nova Scotia and from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The fields extended from Cape North to Scaterie and are moving rapidly southward.
Mar 31 SS “Hope” lost at Byron Is., Gulf of St. Lawrence, pushed ashore by ice. (NW).
April
Apr 17 Issue: Since Mar 30 the coast of eastern Nova Scotia, Sydney northward to Cape Ray and eastward to Cape Race has been clear of ice. Cape St. Lawrence and Magdalen Is. report no ice and the Gulf is now open Sydney to Quebec.
May 9 SS “Ardito” from Wabana off St. Francis, a small berg aground; 25m E of St. John’s a berg ~1½m long; May 10th, 30m NE of Cape Race a berg 1 3/4m long.
May 22 Reports form the Strait of Belle Isle show that a vast body of ice is packed against the Labrador coast, preventing all prospect of shipping traversing that region. It is also reported that icebergs are sweeping south along the eastern seaboard of Newfoundland.
May 22 Issue: 48N 4710’W berg 30-40′ high and from 150-200′ long.
(Quite a few reports in June, Straits of Belle Isle still blocked at end of June).