Monument in Cherbourg, France to all fishers lost at sea - aux pêcheurs disparus en mer. It is next to the Cité de la mer - City of the sea museum based in the art deco emmigration centre where thousands of migrants and refugees from across Europe and Russia left for the Americas between 1820 and 1927.
The text of the central plaque reads, "This memorial was erected in memory of all the fishermen perished at sea. It is surrounded by the names of men from our region who have disappeared since 1960 and whose bodies, one year after the tragedy, had still not been returned by the sea."
Those named with their death dates are,
16 January 1974 - Roger Laumonee12 May 1976 - Albert Cornelie
31 March 1965 - Denis Auvray
14 January 1966 - Jacques Thomine
8 April 1969 - Auguste Lohier
3 May 1960 - Georges Hubert, his brothers Pierre and Claude Hubert, Georges Lescroël, Guy Lescroël and André Lescroël, Louis Buret, Roger Lagueste, Louis Buret and Noël Régnier.
The brothers Guy Lescroël and André Lescroël although named with their brother Georges, had died in January 1960 in the fishing vessel Edwige.
18 February 1964 - Auguste Buisson
8 December 1990 - Maximiano Froita
6 September 1995 - Andy Skinner
16 December 1999 Denis Brucker
1 October 2003 - Pierre Duflot and Yvan Regnier
31 January 2004 - Sébastien Corbinais
5 January 2006 - Olivier Brusa, Thierry Goueslain, Franck Herauville, Ludovic Herauville and Frédéric Terpereau
16 November 1967 - Henri Gosselin, Gérard Gosselin and Gaston Osmoni
30 May 1986 - Claude Lamache
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