A NEWFOUNDLER DEPARTS FROM FECAMP, FRANCE C1910 In Gallery / PORTS, HARBOURS & HAVENS

A NEWFOUNDLER DEPARTS FROM FECAMP, FRANCE C1910

One of the staple foods of France at this time was salted cod. This was fished by such three-masted vessels as this which would sail across to Newfoundland where small dinghies or dories were sent out to fish on the Grand Banks. Fleets of such craft would go out for six months at a time and the cod would be la...