Despite the skilled work of her crew, the Ethie encounters a terrible storm and runs aground around one o'clock in the morning. All manage to reach shore in a rude boatswain's chair

        On the tenth of December, as you all well may know,
          In the year nineteen nineteen, on her last trip did go;
          Where she leaved Daniel's Harbour about 4 P.M.
          With a strong breeze from the south'ard, for Cow Head did steam
  
                  "The Wreck of the Steamship Ethie" by Maude Roberts Simmonds 1920; 
                  Gerald S. Doyle, Old-Time Songs of Newfoundland (1927 & 1955) & see Ballad Index

ALSO:
Per Tom Lehrer: "The Day Satire Died": Henry Kissinger & Le Duc Tho were awarded Nobel Peace Prize
re Vietnam peace on 12/10/1973 (Le Duc Tho refused it)

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