Maritime Industry
- Jeremiah O'Brien captain of privateer 'Unity' in Revolutionary War's first battle
- Captain John Bury, Canadian mariner involved in standardising international buoyage
- Harry McNish, Scottish carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
- Herbert Pitman, Third Officer of the Titanic.
- John Wallace Thomas, Newfoundland captain made Commander of the Order of the British Empire for actions during a Luftwaffe attack
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