Land & Sea: The Portuguese White Fleet from 1967
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- This archival episode of Land & Sea, is a high quality archival film from 1967 shot by John O'Brien and narrated by Angelo da Silva. The film is in excellent condition and follows a Portuguese crew as they board their ship in Lisbon and head to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland.
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I remember these nice people.. I lived at the Battery and I would see all the white ships come in from the sea...it was so beautiful to see all the men play football on the streets....
Tiny wooden boats for men made from steel....... Amazing, these folks are the toughest of the bunch!
Unreal men right there...im a framer in new brunswick canada and i thought we had hard jobs 😥 ...those guys would whoooop us 👍🤘
Brings back so much memories my dad was on one of those boats it’s amazing to see it all absolutely beautiful
A beautiful sight as a Newfoundlander of Portuguese descent.
The Gazela, mentioned in this video at about the 8 minute mark, is still afloat and is the Official Tall Ship of Philadelphia. She was built in 1901 and is owned and operated by the Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild. You can help keep her afloat and her history alive for the world by supporting the Guild!
Courageous man ! Good workers ,I did that kind of fishing when I was young along the Gaspé coast ,
that was a good way of life and harmony with nature!
These fisherman are older than Canada itself. They went from the Azores to Norway, from Norway to Iceland, from Iceland to Greenland, and in Labrador, Canada.
Cod fishing in Newfoundland waters began around 1500 (first the Bretons of France and then the Portuguese)
Sao Jorge....my family has been in North Cali 170 years.....
I saw these boats in 1966 on the Grand Banks, mother ship was a large 3 mast schooner. The cod was salted then dried on the mast rigging.
These men are amazing and outstanding. So brave and hard working.
I have an old printers block of "The White Fleet"... Good to know your history Gravitas
Muito bom good
At 13:28 clip it is mentioned how in St.Johns the Newfoundland government declard a Portuguese day. This was filmed in 1967 , it makes me wonder just how many Portugese men, fishing in Newfoundland at the time were hungry and the actual amount of Newfoundlanders who were hungry that very same day ? ?
The life of the Portuguese fishermen is certainly idylized in this episode of land and sea, isn't it? .
Excellent. Thank you!
Looks like the Herb Davis wraparounds were in the late '70s.
At 10:15 clip they mention 10 kentals ( quintals ) of which = 1,000 pounds per dory ( small single man fishing boat ) but yet mentions a bad day of fishing ! Those are some of the biggest cod I have ever seen with a dory full ! Even the " food fishery " Newfoundlanders are allowed each year , ( I am guessing about 20 fish per person ) and from what I have been told is that a lot of those caught are skinny fish , which tells me there are places where the cod don't have enough to eat ! Are the Caplin bait fish gone as well ?
That was 1967! The fishing got much worse until the northern cod fishery was finally suspended in July, 1992. When was the Grand Bank fishery suspended or heavy quotas imposed? This is, in fact, a very sad film.
At 25:17 clip how ironic is that ! There is NO fish in Newfoundland today , but back in 1967 with a ship so FULL of Codfish it begins to take on water and starts to sink , what is done , get all men safe , THEN TOTALLY BURN THE SHIP AND ALL OF IT'S OVERLADEN , TOO FULL TO CARRY CODFISH CARGO ! ! I have but 2 words , absolutely insane things to be doing and what a waste of food !
Steve, the biggest irony is that today Portugal imports most codfish we eat! In fact, Portugal was already importing cod even when these men were fishing lots of cod! This fishing was part of a strategic campaign led by the Government of the time and as a result, more than half of the needs were covered. It all ended in the middle 70's, I think. I don't understand why they did not make an effort to get at least some of the fish out to the other ships as early in the movie it is said that there were other fleet ships in the neighborhood. Maybe there were more reasons than what is told in the movie, I mean for the sinking of the ship. The all thing was insane, I'm Portuguese but knew little about cod fishing during Salazar's Government and the more I read the more I get surprised. Since the 90's we were forbidden to fish in Newfoundland waters because fish was getting sparse. Today we have only 13 ships for this long distance fishing and we can't fish more than a certain quota that is easy fulfilled in the Barents Sea. We import codfish mostly from Norway.
@@belinhafernandes I was going to say the same. How about trying to move the fish to other ships and avoid all that waste? Besides, reducing the weight in the sinking ship could've actually saved it.
"some of the shops have people working for them who can speak Portuguese and they can help us when we want to buy something" was this at all common in St. John's or perhaps simply an exaggeration on the one or two people who could say a few words in Portuguese?
By 1967, there were already Portuguese people living in Canada. During the 1950s, a large number of immigrants from the Azores and Madeira who were fleeing political conflict with the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar came to Canada by the masses. My parents were a part of that 50's wave.
@@roachy69 Yes, but did they end up in Toronto or in St John's. Newfoundland and Labrador is the poorest province in Canada and has more people moving out each year than are moving in. These fisherman came to fish each year and, then, went home for the off season. There are no women on these boats so they didn't come to Newfoundland and Labrador to settle, did they? Immigration Canada would have deported them if they'd tried to stay!
And no one of the portuguese fishermans speek english, but they eventually understand each other, the portuguese and canadian
Did he just take a shot of liquor with his hands covered in blood. Ewww
That is metal.