And finally, the one you're requesting. Unfortunately, I can't find anything else out about the band you mentioned, or the author of the song. I'll just put back the last little bit that got cut off, from the start of the song. I transcribed the lyrics from the video posted above.

S.S. CARIBOU
(?Unknown?)

On the fourteenth day of October, in Nineteen Forty-Two
From North Sydney to Port aux Basques, Steamed the S.S. Cariobou
With Captain Taverner in command and a crew of forty-five
To her destination, none did know, she never would arrive

With the world at war, no chance they took, under black-out rules she sailed
On a north-east course of a thousand times, and the light winds they prevailed
Some forty miles from Port aux Basques; St. Paul's Island could be seen
While down below is their cowardly foe, that German submarine

The night was cold and quiet, too, upon the briny deep
Some walked the deck, some sat and talked, some men set laid to sleep
Then all hell broke loose when through her side there came that German shell
From the sub below, it came atop to watch their drowning kill

Life for some was short that night, while others did survive
To help the ones trapped down below, some people gave their lives
Some clung to ropes, life-boats, and rafts, great courage they did show
As the Caribou slid underneath, to her watery grave below

For five long hours in the early morn, those warm survivors clung
'Til naval crafts and fishing boats, to the rescue they did come
That awful night, that tragedy, they'll remember all their lives
How one-hundred-thirty-seven were lost, one-hundred-one survived

There'a a monument in Port aux Basques, on the isle of Newfoundland
Inscribed are names of loved ones lost who gallantly did stand
So let the fourteenth day of October, in nineteen-forty-two
Let it live in mem'ry and respect with the S.S. Caribou
Let it live in mem'ry and respect with the S.S. Caribou


S.S. Caribou - Newfie Fever (Youtube)