August 18, 2014 — Annual memorial service honors those lost at sea.
Gloucester’s annual Fishermen’s Memorial Service, held Saturday at the city’s Fishermen’s Memorial and in the shadow of its iconic Man At The Wheel statue, paid tribute to those within the fishing industry who have “gone down to the sea in ships” over nearly four centuries of fishing out of America’s Oldest Seaport.
But this year’s event also offered poignant reminders of the faces of those left behind from the more than 5,000 names inscribed on the Memorial’s Cenotaph, with family members from some of the more recent tragedies at sea turning out.
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