food and compensation. In response to speculation that Southern Cross sank because of overloading, the government prohibited any ship from returning from a hunt with more than 35,000 pelts, and the Minister of Fisheries began to mark "load lines" on sealing vessels. Any ship that returned to port with its "load line" below the water would be heavily fined. Public response Public sympathy was very evident after the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster. By April 27, 1914, a disaster fund set up to aid survivors and their families amounted to $88,550. It's notable that this was not limited to the sealing disasters; it was common practice in society at the time to respond to industrial accidents in this way. In popular culture The vessel was the subject of the book Death on the Ice by Cassie Brown, and a 1991 National Film Board of Canada documentary I Just Didn't Want to Die: The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster. To mark the 100th anniversary of the Newfoundland sealing disaster, an animated short entitled "54 Hours" was produced by the National Film Board of Canada. A novel about the sinking by Tim B. Rogers titled The Mystery of the SS Southern Cross was published in 2014. The loss of so many lives on Southern Cross has caused the incident to be written in a song entitled Southern Cross. See also List of Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922 References Bibliography External links 54 hours, National Film Board of Canada Steamships of Norway Icebreakers of Norway Steamships of Canada Icebreakers of Canada Maritime incidents in March 1914 Shipwrecks of the Newfoundland and Labrador coast Ships built in Arendal 1886 ships