Loss of the Schooner Little Jap

November 5, 2015June 17, 2019Crystal Braye

In summer of 1909 the schooner Little Jap left from Deer Island to fish on the Labrador Coast. She returned home with “six hundred quintals of salt bulk cod” at the end of October, a little later than was usual.

Henry Vokey

August 17, 2014March 10, 2016Jeremy Harnum

vokey-1 — Henry Vokey outside his home in Trinity, NL

Henry Vokey was born with boat building in his blood; His uncles and grandfather before him were boat builders. Henry Was born in 1929 to parents Joseph William and Mary Vokey and grew up in Little Harbour, located in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. As a boy, he took an interest in boat building and at age 12 Henry built his first model boat, which measured six feet long. In the 1950s, at age twenty-five Henry built his first boat. In 1964, Henry and his family resettled to the town of Trinity and that’s when he took up boat building professionally.

Earl Feltham

November 17, 2012March 2, 2016Crystal Braye

P_Deer-Island-22 — Earl Feltham spent four seasons as marine engineer on Labrador fishing schooner the *Sherman Zwicker*

Earl Feltham was born on Deer Island in 1937. His father Ephraim, was a fisherman and a carpenter. In 1953, when Earl was 16 years old, Ephraim and his wife Suzy moved their family to Glovertown.
Earl went on to St. John’s where he attended the College of Fisheries (now the Marine Institute) and spent six seasons working on vessels along the Labrador coast.