SS Newfoundland was a wooden-hulled brigantine and steamship that was built in 1872 and wrecked in 1916. She was a cargo ship, and for part of her career she was a sealing ship. In 1916 she was renamed Samuel Blandford. Newfoundland was involved in two disasters. The first was the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, when 132 sealers were stranded on an ice floe, resulting in 78 deaths. The second was in 1916, shortly after she had been renamed, when she struck rocks and was wrecked. Specifications Peter Baldwin built Newfoundland in Quebec, completing her in 1872. Her registered length was , her beam was , her depth was and her tonnages were and . She had two masts and was rigged as a brigantine. Newfoundland had a two-cylinder compound steam engine, built by the Ouseburn Engine Works of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, which powered her single screw. It was originally rated at "130 HP", but by 1903 it was rated at 162 NHP. Owners, managers and registration James and Alexander Allan were Newfoundlands first owners. They registered her in Glasgow, Scotland. Her UK official number was 66054 and her code letters were MCPB. In 1890 Allan Line re-registered Newfoundland in Montreal. In 1893 John H Anderson of Musquodoboit bought Newfoundland and re-registered her in Windsor, Nova Scotia. In 1900 JA Farquhar became her owner. In 1904 John Harvey bought her and re-registered her in St John's, Newfoundland. From 1907 her owner was the Steamship "Newfoundland" Sealing Co, Ltd, and AJ Harvey was her manager. By 1913 Newfoundland was equipped for wireless telegraphy. Her call sign was VOW. In 1916 William Davis of St John's, Newfoundland acquired Newfoundland, and she was renamed Samuel Blandford. 1914 disaster On March 30, 1914, Newfoundland was trapped in ice off the northern coast of Newfoundland. Her captain, Wes Kean, could see signals from , commanded by his father Abram Kean, indicating that there were seals several miles away. The next morning, Wes Kean sent his crew in that direction across the ice to begin killing seals, commanded by his first officer, expecting that if the weather worsened they would stay overnight aboard Stephano. When the men reached Stephano, Abram Kean gave the men lunch and then ordered them back onto the ice to kill seals and find Newfoundland, despite signs of worsening weather. As a storm began that afternoon, the captains of both Newfoundland and