The Daphne and Phyllis was one of several larger banking schooners built by shipwright Cephas Grandy in the mid-1940s. The vessel was side-launched — in local terminology 'launched on her bilge' — instead of the traditional way of the hull sliding down an inclined slipway, stern first. (Robert W. Stoodley Photography)Garnish — population of 542 as of the 2021 census — can trace its history back more than two and a half centuries to 1763, when the first Grandys were unceremoniously moved from the
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Maurice Kearley, 96, is among the last of the men who worked the Grand Banks in dories near great wooden schooners. See a full episode from Land & Sea, with host Jane Adey.
The Mariner's Memorial has given a form of closure to some of the widows and children of lost seamen but the emotional fallout can carry on into future generations.
Earlier this year, the schooner marked 100 years since its launch, and a Fortune, N.L. man the only doryman still alive who fished on it is closing in on that milestone as well.