Andrea Gail

The Andrea Gail was an American commercial fishing vessel lost at sea with all six crewmembers during the Perfect Storm of 1991. The vessel and her six-man crew had been fishing the North Atlantic Ocean out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her last reported position was 180 miles, about 290 kilometres, northeast of Sable Island on October 28, 1991. The story of the Andrea Gail and her crew became the basis of the 1997 book The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger and of a 2000 film adaptation of the same name. She is a working fishing boat of the New England commercial fleet, remembered chiefly for her loss in the storm and for the books and films that followed.