SS Newfoundland

Photograph of Newfoundland with inset portrait of Captain W Kean
History
Name	1872: Newfoundland 1916: Samuel Blandford
Namesake	1872: Newfoundland
Owner	1873: J&A Allan 1893: JH Anderson 1900: JA Farquhar & Co 1904: J Harvey 1907: SS "Newfoundland" Sealing Co Ltd 1916: William Davis
Operator	1907: AJ Harvey & Co
Port of registry	1873: Glasgow 1890: Montreal 1893: Windsor, NS 1904: St John's
Builder	P Baldwin, Quebec
Completed	1872
Identification	UK official number 66054 code letters MCPB w/t call sign VOW
Fate	Wrecked 1916
General characteristics
Type	cargo ship, sealing ship
Tonnage	919 GRT, 568 NRT
Length	212.5 ft (64.8 m)
Beam	29.5 ft (9.0 m)
Depth	23.3 ft (7.1 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	1881: 130 HP 1903: 162 NHP
Propulsion	1 × compound steam engine 1 × screw
Sail plan	brigantine

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.