{{Short description|Newfoundland politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = The Honourable Captain | name = Isaac Randell | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MHA|size=100%}} | image = | image_upright = | landscape = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pronunciation = | birth_name = Isaac Robert Randell | birth_date = 15 February 1871 | birth_place = Port Rexton, Newfoundland | baptised = | disappeared_date = | disappeared_place = | disappeared_status = | death_date = 15 January 1942 | death_place = St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland | death_cause = | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | burial_place = | burial_coordinates = | monuments = | other_names = | siglum = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Master mariner, businessman, politician | years_active = | era = | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = Commanding the rescue ship, SS Bellaventure, during the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster. | notable_works = | style = | height = | television = | title = Member of the House of Assembly for Trinity | term = 1923 - 1928 | predecessor = Archibald Targett | successor = Frederick Gordon Bradley | political_party = Liberal Reform, Liberal-Progressive | other_party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | criminal_charges = | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | mother = Mary Fowlow | father = Capt. John Randell Sr. | relatives = Robert Fowler (1st Cousin) | family = | callsign = | awards = | website = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_type = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}
'''Isaac Robert Randell''' (February 15, 1871<ref name=who/> – January 15, 1942) was a mariner and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Trinity in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1923 to 1928.<ref name=bio/>
The son of John Randell and Mary Fowlow, he was born in Port Rexton and was educated there and at the Navigation School in St. John's. He left school at a young age to work with his father in the Labrador fishery. He earned his mate's certificate in 1892 and his master's certification in 1895.<ref name=bio/> Randell was first given command of a ship in 1895.<ref name=who/> He later commanded vessels engaged in Arctic exploration for the government of Canada.<ref name=bio/>
Randell was commander of the ''Bellaventure'' which rescued 35 members of the crew of the ''SS Newfoundland'' who had survived what is now known as the 1914 sealing disaster.<ref name=bio/> The men had endured two nights of freezing rain and blowing snow on the North Atlantic ice fields without shelter or food. One of the rescued men died shortly afterwards in St. John's where the survivors had been brought for medical care. The crew of the ''Bellaventure'' also recovered the bodies of 58 men who had not survived the ordeal.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol03/tnm_3_3_15-48.pdf |title=Newfoundland Spring Sealing Disasters to 1914 |last=Ryan |first=Shannon |publisher=Canadian Nautical Research Society |journal=The Northern Mariner |volume=III |issue=3 |pages=15–48 |date=July 1993}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/sealing_disaster.html |title=The 1914 Sealing Disaster |work=Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage |publisher=Memorial University}}</ref>
Randell joined A.H. Murray and Co. in 1920, was their agent in Brazil for 14 months and later became a director for the firm.<ref name=who/>
In 1903, he married Effie Beatrice Taylor. The couple had two sons and five daughters.<ref name=who>{{cite book |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_tools/id/26977 |title=Who's who in and from Newfoundland |year=1927 |page=274}}</ref>
Randell was first elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1923 and was reelected in 1924. He was named to the Legislative Council of Newfoundland in 1931. He died in St. John's in 1942.<ref name=bio>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/3924 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador |page=520 |title=Randell, Isaac Robert}}</ref>
==Ship's Commanded== * Plymouth * Belle of the Exe * SS Regulus * SS Bellaventure * SS Bonaventure * Sheba * SS Njord * SS Seal * SS Sagona
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