Captain Ben Taverner and crewmate on S.S. “Caribou”
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Photo:
Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Captain Harry Stone Collection, PF-055.2-L33
https://mha.mun.ca/mha/pviewphoto.php?Record_ID=2795&pagev=1
This undated photo shows Captain Benjamin Taverner and a crewman on the bridge of S.S. Caribou.
Captain Ben Taverner (1880-1942) was a mariner, born in Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Starting as a deckhand on a foreign ship at the age of fourteen, he later became captain of the flagship S.S. Caribou. He died at sea when his ship was sunk by a German U-boat on October 14, 1942.