"The USS Truxtun DD-229 and the USS Pollux AKS-2 Wrecks Site is the site of two shipwrecks located in Chamber Cove and off Lawn Head" on the Burin Peninsula. "On February 18, 1942 a fierce north Atlantic winter storm drove the ships aground beneath desolate cliffs between Lawn Head and Chamber Cove." "203 sailors perished, but in spite of freezing conditions, icy precipices and the oil soaked sailors and water, 186 men were saved." "The townspeople took into their homes every survivor." source
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Standing Into DangerCassie Brown
“The storm raged over the clifftops of the bleak, uninhabited stretch of coast from Lawn Head to Chambers Cove, on the south coast of Newfoundland. In the black winter night the …”