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The Andrea Gail was a 72-foot (22 m) commercial fishing vessel constructed in Panama City, Florida, in 1978, and owned by Robert Brown. Her home port was Gloucester, Massachusetts . She sailed from Gloucester, where she would offload her catch and reload food and stores for her next run.
Mar 16, 2024 · Of the six men on board the Andrea Gail that day, none of them made it home. A few weeks after the ship went missing, its emergency beacon washed ashore on Sable Island, off the Nova Scotian coast, but the vessel itself was never found.
The Andrea Gail was a vessel that sadly met its end during the 1991 Perfect Storm. With a crew of six men, Captain William Tyne, Robert Shatford, David Sullivan, Dale Murphy, Michael Moran and Alfred Pierre, it was lost at sea with catastrophic consequences.
Oct 29, 2016 · Gloucester's Andrea Gail, whose crew was lost at sea during a 1991 nor'easter, is remembered nationally through print and film, and personally in the seaside community.
May 6, 2005 · It was out of Gloucester, in October 1991, aboard a 72-foot longliner called the Andrea Gail. The night before he left, he and Jodi had a three-hour telephone conversation, talking about the...
Oct 27, 2021 · The Andrea Gail was on day 40 of an extended commercial swordfishing trip when three powerful storms converged on the Northeast. Data buoys measured waves as high as 100 feet, and...
Andrea Gail sank while returning to Gloucester, her debris washing ashore over the subsequent weeks. The crew of six was presumed killed after a Coast Guard search was unable to find them.
Oct 30, 2020 · On Sept. 20, 1991, the Andrea Gail left port in Gloucester, Mass. for the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The plan was to fill the hold with swordfish and return within a month or so, but that depended on the crew’s luck.
Nov 13, 2009 · The fishing boat Andrea Gail and its six-member crew were lost in the storm. The disaster spawned the bestselling book The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger and a blockbuster Hollywood movie of...
Oct 1, 1994 · The Andrea Gail was a 70-foot longliner that was leaving for Canada’s Grand Banks within days. He had a place on board if he wanted it. “I just had bad vibes,” he would say later. Without...
