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Shipwrecks and Ships of Gloucester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Gloucester was founded in 1623 as a Massachusetts Bay Colony by the Dorchester Company from Dorchester England. The following list of ships plus crew and passenger names is taken from shipwrecks from Gloucester Massachusetts 1830 to 1873.
Source: The Fishermans' Memorial and Record Book by
George H. Proctor
A list of vessels and their crews, Lost from the Port of
Gloucester From the year 1830 to October 1, 1873.
Embracing
A Period of Nearly Half a Century comprising
Fourteen Hundred and Thirty-Seven Names, and two hundred and
Ninety -Six Vessels, including those lost in the Gale of
August 24, 1873.
It also Contains
Valuable Statistics of the Fishing Business, off-hand
sketches, big trips, tales of
narrow escapes, Maritime Poetry, and other Matters of
Interest to these Toilers of the Sea.
Gloucester:
Proctor Brothers, Publishers, Cape Ann Advertiser Office,
1873.
Choose from the list of shipwrecks (lost ships) from the Port of Gloucester Massachusetts with names of crew members and passengers who died: 1832 | 1833 | 1834 | 1835 (no ships) | 1836 | 1837 | 1838 | 1839 | 1840 | 1841 | 1842 | 1843 | 1844 | 1845 | 1846 | 1847 | 1848(no ships) | 1849 | 1850 | 1851 | 1852 | 1853 | 1854 | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | ... more to follow [With thanks to Volunteer Transcriber Peggy Broughton, Proofreader Laura Freeman]
Gloucester United Fire Society 1845 Roster Rules and Orders Agreed to be Observed by the United Fire Society. Instituted at Gloucester, Sandy Bay, (Now called Rockport,) January 3d, 1807. Includes a roster of members from 1808 to 1845.
This is a "bucket brigade" that preceeded the establishment of a fire department in the town. "That if any Fire should be permitted to break out in Rockport, we will
be helpful to each other in extinguishing the same". [$]
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