You LIve, Even After Dying

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At few years ago, this monument was erected as a memorial to the 251 sealers who died during a storm in March 1914 in the out port of Elliston. Both the SS Newfoundland and the SS Southern Cross sank to the bottom of the sea. leaving the men on the SS Newfoundland stranded on ice and the men on the SS Southern Cross in tumultuous freezing waters to drown.

The men on the SS Newfoundland were stranded on the ice for two days in blizzard conditions. Two-thirds of these men on the SS Newfoundland died, and the other third who survived lost limbs to frost bite.

However, all of the men on the SS Southern Cross drowned and none of the bodies were ever found, resulting in more deaths than any other single disaster in Newfoundland's sealing history.

The statue depicts a father and son, Rueben and Albert John Crewe, who were found frozen to death in the father's embrace of his beloved son.

I don't know if the father and son knew God. I hope they did because if they did, they live, even after dying.

"Jesus told her,

'I am the resurrection and the life.

Anyone who believes in me

will live, even after dying.'"

John 11:25 (NLT)