| The first memorial service for the fishermen lost at sea
was held at City hall, Sunday afternoon, December 23, 1873. The year had been an
exceptionally hard one for the fishermen of the Atlantic, 174 of their number having
answered the final call in pursuance of their labors on the ocean. The services are an annual event, now held on a Sunday in August, when the tide is right. The ceremony
opens with a reading of the roll of the dead - those fishermen who lost their lives at sea
since the previous ceremony, and after each name a bouquet of flowers is case upon the
out-going tide. After the reading of the individual names, the participants stand
along the waterway and cast bouquets of flowers onto the tide, which carries them into the
deep waters, as a last memorial to the fishermen dead.
These men are not yet listed on the main lists. As
soon as the stories behind the losses are found, they will be moved to the main list.
August 20, 1925 - Henry Colt
August 1927 - Daniel McQuarrie
August 13, 1934 - William Muise
August 3, 1936 - Louis Perry
Augsut 20, 1938 - Albanie Muise
The following names are listed in the book "White-Tipped
Orange Masts, Gloucester's Fishing Draggers,
A Time of Change 1970 - 1972", by Peter K. Prybot, © 1998, The Curious
Traveller Press, Gloucester, Massachusetts.( ISBN 1-892839-01-6 ) At the end of the
book there is a section titled "In Memoriam, Gloucester Fishermen and Vessels Lost at
Sea, 1940 - 1995". These are the names that I have not yet researched :
1942 - Patrick J. O'Brien
1948 - Robert E. Cavanaugh
1949 - Edward W. Decker
1951 - (The microfilm for the first 3/4 of 1951 are missing
from the library files. If you have any information on thiese men it would be
greatly appreciated.)
- W. Frank Cavanaugh
- Arthur Davis
- William H. Travis
1953 - John R. Powers
February 20, 1958 - Salvatore Carollo (The microfilm
for February 1958 was missing from the library files. If you have information on
this loss it would be greatly appreciated.)
1970 - Jose Pinho Vinagre
1971 - Robert Saunders
1979 - Douglas Barry |
