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Andrea Gail

Andrea Gail is a vessel with steel hull, which is used for fishing purposes. It was built in 1978 on the Eastern Marina Inc. shipyard in Panama City, Florida. The ship is diesel-powered and has only one propeller, two decks, a mast and a rectangular transom.

The Andrea Gail is a chine with coaming and abusive stem, under the name “western rig is known.” This means that it has an almost rectangular main frame cross section. In addition, the wheelhouse is an elevated Run deck, making Andrea Gail a specialist fishing boat.

The F/V Andrea Gail commenced its journey on September 1991 with a squad of 6 men onboard, this journey was to catch swordfish in the area of the “Grand Banks” from the port of Gloucester, MA.

The command Tyne, Frank Jr. of 10 to 12 years of experience in fishing, of which nearly five years as captain. According to the owner of the Andrea Gail leaves Gloucester with around 34,000 liters of fuel and 7,500 gallons of water in its internal tanks. In addition, it takes 30 barrels on deck, each with about 207 liters of fuel and seven to ten barrels with 207 liters of drinking water.

This results in an additional weight of more than seven tons when leaving the port. To carry additional fuel and drinking water in barrels, which are lashed on deck, is not uncommon, and a practice followed on ships like the Andrea Gail. The return journey towards Gloucester, MA began on 26th or 27th of October 1991.

Andrea Gail reported at 15:15 hours on October 27th, 1991, via radio that it is entering in the Canadian waters, and their full gear is stowed and that they are returning home soon, ground controls have tried to explain them that the conditions are not in favor but were unable to contact them.

On October 31, 1991 begins the search for the Andrea Gail, the up to 10 November 1991 continues. It is searched an area of over 200,000 sq km. To find 23 ships of the U. S. are Coast Guard, eight aircraft of the U. S. Coast Guard, three aircraft of the U. S. Navy, three Canadian aircraft and an aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps participation. The aircraft flew for a total of 41 missions with a “seek time” of more than 180 hours.

The search was on late evening of 9 November 1991 because of the low chance of survival of the crew unsuccessfully terminated.

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Posted by natali on Oct 23rd, 2009 and filed under U.S Breaking News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.