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Andrea Gail was a 72-foot (22 m) commercial fishing vessel constructed in Panama City, Florida, in 1978, and owned by Robert Brown. [2] 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.
Its wreck has yet to be found. This is a list of missing ships and wrecks. ... Possible or Last Known Location FV: Andrea Gail: 1991: somewhere off Sable Island [5] FV:
Overall there were thirteen confirmed deaths, [6] [7] including six on board Andrea Gail, a swordfishing boat. The vessel departed Gloucester, Massachusetts , for the waters off Nova Scotia. After encountering high seas in the middle of the storm, the vessel made its last radio contact late on October 28, about 180 miles (290 km) northeast of ...
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Andrea Gail endures various problems including 40-foot (12 m) waves crashing onto the deck, a broken stabilizer ramming the side of the ship with a loose anchor, and two crew members briefly getting thrown overboard. The ship struggles to sail through pounding waves and shrieking winds and her dewatering pumps unable to keep up getting the ...
The book is about the 1991 Perfect Storm that hit North America between October 28 and November 4, 1991, and features the crew of the fishing boat Andrea Gail, from Gloucester, Massachusetts, who were lost at sea during severe conditions while longline fishing for swordfish 575 miles (925 km) out.
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