Blonde Rock, Nova Scotia
Blonde Rock is a shoal off the south-eastern tip of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located at position 43° 20′ 28″ N, 65° 59′ 10″ W, and 5.9 kilometres (3.7 mi) roughly south-southeast of Seal Island.[1][2] At a low spring tide, only two feet of the rock are above water.[3][4][5]
The shoal was named after British Royal Navy frigate HMS Blonde, which was wrecked on the shoal on 21 January 1782.[6][7][8][9][10][11] The 60 American prisoners on board HMS Blonde made their way to Seal Island, Nova Scotia. American privateer Noah Stoddard in the Scammell rescued them and controversially allowed the British crew to return to Halifax in HMS Observer, (which was involved in the Naval battle off Halifax en route), leading to his later exile in Nova Scotia as a Loyalist.[12][13]
References
[edit]- ^ Murdoch, Beamish (1867). A history of Nova Scotia, or Acadie. Vol.3. Halifax, N. S.: James Barnes. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- ^ "Blonde Rock". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ Blunt, Edmund March; Blunt, George William (1857). The American Coast Pilot. E. and G. W. Blunt. p. 191. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 36, p. 162
- ^ "Ships of war lost on the coast of Nova Scotia and Sable Island, during the Eighteenth Century". Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society; for the Years 1893-95. 9. 1880. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Blonde Frigate (Old Warship) 1782". Wrecksite.eu. 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ^ The Town and Country Magazine, Or, Universal Repository of ..., Volume 14, p. 502
- ^ The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 36, p. 162
- ^ Wrongly reported by Colledge and Warlow as wrecked off Nantucket; mistake repeated by Hepper (1994), p.68.
- ^ RADDALL, Thomas H. "Adventures of H.M.S. Blonde in Nova Scotia, 1778–1782". Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. 35. 1966. Pp. 29–52.
- ^ "HMS Blonde - 1782". Marine Heritage Database. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ Sacking of Lunenburg. Saga of the Seas, Archibald MacMechan, 1923
- ^ Thomas Head Raddall. "Adventures of H.M.S. Blonde in Nova Scotia, 1778–1782". Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society. 1966.