The fate of the crew gained national attention in 1997 when Junger, a Belmont native, published a book about the three-day nor’easter called “The Perfect Storm.” The story later made its way to Hollywood. You sit around together and you wait for news, and you hope.”Īfter 10 days, the search was called off. “You know in your heart how could anyone survive that storm,” Shatford’s sister, Maryanne Shatford, recently told. The Coast Guard then began an extensive search. No answers to how or if the ship went down. You probably won’t be fishing tomorrow night.'”Īfter that, there was silence. “I recall him saying, ‘The weather sucks. “I wanted a weather report, and Billy wanted a fishing report,” she told the Times. Greenlaw recalled to the Gloucester Times that her last conversation with Tyne was “typical.” The boat was carrying six crew members: Captain Bill Tyne, 37, David Sullivan, 29, and Bob Shatford, 30, all of Gloucester, as well as Dale Murphy and Michael Moran, both of Bradenton Beach, Florida, and Alfred Pierre, of New York City.Ī Maine fishing boat captain, Linda Greenlaw, was the last person to speak with her sister ship. “But what got me worried is that there were no communications for such a long time.” “Depending on the conditions and the amount of catch, they are usually out there a month,” Brown told the Globe in 1991.
But after three days without word from the crew, the boat’s owner, Robert Brown, became nervous. The Andrea Gail, a 12-year-old, 70-foot vessel, was scheduled to return to Gloucester after a sword fishing trip to Newfoundland’s Grand Banks, more than 900 miles away. Our house escaped by some miracle.”īut days before the storm wreaked havoc on the East Coast, it was raging in the ocean with winds up to 120 mph -and the six men onboard Gloucester’s Andrea Gail found themselves right in the heart of it. “At 6 o’clock there was no lawn and she was worried there’d be no house. “At 3 o’clock Wednesday my mother was upset because there was salt water on her lawn,” a Chatham resident told the Globe. A small Marshfield home was even lifted from its foundation, floating in the water and endangering moored boats. Winds upwards of 70 mph “tossed like beach toys the surf,” The Boston Globe reported on October 31, 1991. The storm left a trail of destruction from Nova Scotia to Florida, killing 13 people and causing close to $500 million in damage as it lashed the coast from Oct. Residents leave a battered section of Nantasket Ave.
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