A Google Earth satellite image of modern St.
John's
“Stopping at St. John’s only long enough to fill with coal, the Falcon got away on the 15th, and ploughed her way northward. In the waist and forward, her deck was washed constantly, and the poor little burros stood knee-deep in the water.” - Robert E. Peary, Northward over the Great Ice, published in 1898
"St. John's" by TerraMetrics, 2007, Google Earth