[1] The Wadham Islands were extremely popular fishing grounds since the early 19th century and were first used by crews from Bonavista.
Mostly the Offer Wadhams and Peckford islands were used, as they had ideal drying conditions and some of the best salt cod in the country.
For more than 100 years Doting Cove men moved to the Wadham Islands in the summer to fish.
Lay readers and appointed readers were: Between May 1976 and June 1977, historian and explorer Tim Severin recreated the seven-year voyage to a new land across the Atlantic Ocean and back described in the medieval Latin text Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (The Voyage of St. Brendan the Abbot).
At the end of their 4,500-mile (7,200 km) passage, Severin and his crew first made landfall at Peckford Island.