She wonders even now if he could still somehow be alive and can imagine the grief of the families today.įinally, she found the marker she was looking for: "Vita & Philomena Misuraca." Red carnations covered two others.įor years after the accident, without a body to bury, Misuraca ran to the door because she thought she heard her husband knocking. There was already one dedicated to the Sanfilippo family, and another with the name Frontiero. This afternoon at the new memorial, she scanned the simple marker stones at her feet, looking for his name. Philomena Misuraca, 81, lost her husband at sea 23 years ago.
To those who knew the crew of the Starbound, its unveiling was particularly bittersweet given their recent, all-too-familiar losses.
Twenty years in the making, the bronze and granite 8-foot statue by sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike depicts a mother standing on a rock and looking out to sea, a baby cradled in one arm and a young son at her side. Just hours after the tragedy occurred, this close-knit fishing community - well known as the nation's oldest continuously working fishing port and for its portrayal in "The Perfect Storm" - gathered Sunday to dedicate a Fishermen's Wives Memorial in honor of the families of thousands of lost fishermen. Coast Guard officials searched a 250-square-mile area and concluded the chances of survival were "highly improbable" for the men after 38 hours in cold seas. Mark Doughty, of Yarmouth, Maine, and Thomas Frontiero, 40, of Gloucester, were believed to be asleep downstairs at the time of the collision and remain missing. The vessel also retrieved the body of James Sanfilippo, 29, of Thomaston, Maine. Sunday, and a nearby fishing vessel rescued Marcantonio from a life raft several hours later. The ship's automatic emergency beacons sounded about 1 a.m. "He thought sank in 10 seconds or less," Reams said. He was thrown overboard before he could identify the oncoming vessel, Reams said. But James Reams, a New Hampshire-based county attorney who spoke to Marcantonio, said the captain told him he arrived on deck just as the ships collided. Last month, a foggy run-in between a commercial barge and a fishing vessel on the Ohio River left six fishermen dead.ĭetails of this collision were not immediately available. The only survivor was the captain, Joseph Marcantonio of Gloucester, whose ship, the Starbound, had been trawling for herring on the Sewell Ridge fishing grounds. Coast Guard inspectors are reviewing computer records and checking ships that have pulled into eastern seaboard ports here and in Canada, looking for evidence such as dents in hulls and paint scrapings on bows that could link a vessel to the tragic accident. Coast Guard today called off its search for two other missing fishermen whose vessel reportedly collided Sunday with an unidentified ship about 130 miles off the coast of Cape Ann and sank within seconds.Īn investigation continues, however, to find a cargo ship, tanker or other large vessel that may have struck - possibly unwittingly - the 83-foot trawler in heavy early morning fog. With one crew member already confirmed dead, the U.S.
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