American History

On November 4, 1991 a major storm, originally referred to as the "Halloween Nor'Easter" and hence recoined the "Perfect Storm" by a meterologist and made famous by Sebastian Junger's book, harrassed boats from Nova Scotia down to the New Jersey coast. The 70' longliner Andrea Gail went down in that storm and with her went the crew of swordfishermen Captain William "Billy" Tyne, Robert "Bobby" Shatford of Gloucester, Dale Murphy and Michael "Bugsy" Moran of Bradenton Beach, Florida, David "Sully" Sullivan and Alfred Pierre of New York City. While UFiSH is generally against the practice of longlining due to it's indescriminent method which kills many juvenile fish, sha...