“The first news of the disaster was picked up by the admiralty wireless station at Mount Pearl, in a radio from the stranded ship: ‘S.O.S. Florizel ashore near Cape Race. Fast going to pieces.’” The Evening Telegraph, St John’s, February 25, 1918. The news was quickly communicated to the owners of the ship, who received the information around five a.m., and by 4 p.m. a relief train full of doctors, nurses, and medical supplies was on its way to the scene, as was a ship full of life-saving tools and Royal Naval Reservists with lifeboats. This had all taken time though, in part because of conflicting messages that had been sent, and no one could get ahold of the Florizel by wireless any longer. 

Ship Name: Florizel 

Ship Nationality: Canadian 

Year Built: 1909

Tonnage: 3081

Ship Type: Steel Screw Steamship 

Year Wrecked: 1918

Reason For Wreck: Struck Rocks After Going Off Course

Location Wrecked: Cappahayden, Newfoundland

Lives Lost: 94

Sources: 

https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/telegram19/id/13441

http://www.newfoundlandshipwrecks.com/Florizel/Documents/florizel_documents.htm

https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_enl/id/3300

https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/archives/id/4131

https://archive.org/stream/nfldquart190911uoft/nfldquart190911uoft_djvu.txt

https://newspaperarchive.com/renwick-times-mar-07-1918-p-6/

https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-post-feb-25-1918-p-10/

https://newspaperarchive.com/corner-brook-western-star-oct-05-1951-p-26/

https://newspaperarchive.com/xenia-daily-gazette-feb-25-1918-p-1/

https://newspaperarchive.com/joplin-news-herald-feb-26-1918-p-1/