"The sea shall give up the dead that are in it."

On September 19, 1846, the Marblehead fleet was fishing the Grand Banks of Newfoundland when it was caught in a hurricane.
Sixty-five perished and at least eleven vessels were lost.

The Marblehead fishing industry never recovered. The Marblehead Charitable Seamen Society, founded in 1831, collected funds for the familes and for a monument. In 1848, the "Fishermen's Monument" was dedicated. It lists the names of deceased members lost on shore and at sea.

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