Lost at sea memorials

Lost at sea memorials run by Dan Jenkins from California in the United States is a blog dedicated to, "souls lost to war, to civilian shipping accidents, to airplane crashes, to commercial fishing and recreational boating and scientific research."

It includes quite a few memorials to fishers such as Bodega Head in California and Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia.

There is also a lovely piece about the Figurehead memorial in Bermuda created by Bermudan artist Bill Ming to lost fishermen. 

In his plan for the memorial, Bill Ming said that it, "Should honour our local fishermen/women who cast their nets and pots to scrape an existence from their catch. Bermudians lost to their loved ones as a result of storms or hurricane and the African slaves who perished during the long arduous Middle Passage."

The base of the memorial is inscribed with the names of fishers and everyone known to have to died at sea from Bermuda. The Bermudan news service BerNews has many more photos and lists the names on the memorial.

• Al Wilmot
• Alan W Edness
• Albert “Cheesy” Hughes
• Alex Pearman
• Alfred Tucker
• Arthur Moniz
• Augustus “Gussie” Philpott
• Benjamin Joseph Simmons
• Benjamin Tucker
• Bruce Skinner
• Captain John F Leseur
• Captain Joseph Nelmes Frith
• Captain Samuel Tucker
• Captain William Tucker
• Cedric Burgess
• Charles David Stuart
• Charles O’Brian Trott
• Charles Raynor
• Claudius A Philpott
• Crew of Brigante Gazelle
• Crew of Schooner Digby
• David A Desilva
• David Bascome
• Dennis Bagnell
• Dexter Tucker
• Edgar Smith
• Elma Paynter Joynes
• Ella Dunsombe
• Gene Stoneham
• Geoffrey Outerbridge
• George Forbes Hinson
• George Minks
• Gladys Saunders
• Harry Darrell
• Harry L Arorash
• Henry Deshield
• Henry Ravens
• Henry Taylor
• Herbert M Richardson
• Hilton Bean
• Hiram Guest
• Israel Todd
• Jack Bassett
• Joe Fubler
• John Ingham
• John Newbold
• John W.E. Riley
• John William Higgs
• Joseph Burch
• Joseph F Leseur
• Joseph Knights
• Joseph Trimingham
• Kenneth “Mickey” Thompson
• Kenneth A Butterfield
• Kenneth Wilson
• Leonard “Sam” Outerbridge
• Lomley Lough
• M.S. Dalzell
• Macdonald “Bull” Swan
• Manuel Pacheco
• Marcus Gilbert
• Micah Battersbee
• Miller T Powell
• Nicole O’Connor
• Noel Smith
• Peter James
• Randolph Outerbridge
• Reginald D.C Lowe
• Richard Cox
• Richard Robinson
• Robert Gibbons
• Sinclair E Samuels
• Thomas Swan
• Thomas Whittington
• Victor “Blair” Lindo
• Walter N.D. Smith
• William Bean
• William S Leseur
• William Simmons

The memorial is also inscriped with a quote from the Hebrew Bible, Psalm 107, 23-24, "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters. They see the works of the Lord, and the wonders of the deep."

More about about Bill Ming's work can be found here.