Eight Bells in 2021

A ship’s bell is struck for each half-hour of a four-hour watch, and when a sailor has died, they are honored with the sounding of eight bells; meaning “end of the watch”.

For those sailors whose watch ended in 2021, their information submitted to Scuttlebutt Sailing News is listed below in the order it was published:

• Simon ‘Fumesy’ Russell
• George Hazen
• Alex McAuley
• Ding Schoonmaker
• Joseph Vittoria
• Bob Fisher
• Derek Campbell
• Bill Mauk
• Richard Levesque
• Frederick Frye, MD
• Douglas Keary
• Ted Jones
• Chris Welsh
• Robin Wallace
• James Gillinder Carson
• Gordo Johnson
• Prince Philip
• Conn Findlay
• Bengt-Olof Hult
• Burt Keenan
• Albie Stewart
• Thomas Harrington
• Helmut Jahn
• Rich Roberts
• John Goode
• William Poole
• Vince Morvillo
• Paul Phelan
• Rodger Martin
• Peter Haycraft
• Bob McNulty
• Bruno Bich
• Larry Krause
• Mike Butterfield
• William Dalessi
• Ray Burke
• Dev Barker
• Stewart P. Neff
• Means Davis
• Harry R. Keene, Sr.
• Bruce Kirby
• Geoffrey Ewenson
• Ralph (Pete) Lawson III
• Paul Erling Johnson
• Mark McNamara
• Robert L. James
• Harry Allen
• Kay Gillette North
• Bill Herrschaft
• David Sweeney
• Judy Franco
• Luiz Kahl
• Jill Urban
• Bob Chilton
• Peter Poland
• Jim Plaxton
• Laurie Davidson
• Billy Sherman
• Roy Gunsolus
• Patsy Ewenson
• Paul Borssuck
• Lindy Thomas
• Art Diefendorf
• Andy Macdonald
• Art Mitchel
• Ross Cameron
• Morton Weintraub
• James Wharram

To submit information to Scuttlebutt Sailing News, send to editor@sailingscuttlebutt.com