Gloucester Gale: The True Story of the Swordfishing Schooner Dorcas

In Gloucester Gale, Dan Fuller tells the true story of Captain Joseph Silveira and the swordfishing schooner Dorcas during the August Gale of 1924. In this vivid narrative about men battling against a raging force of nature during the bygone age of wooden ships and harpoons, he reconstructs the events of that hurricane and the schooner Dorcas, the impact to the rest of the fleet out at Georges Bank, and their loved ones back in Gloucester.