Eight Bells in 2022

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 2022, their information submitted to Scuttlebutt Sailing News is listed below in the order it was published:

• Guy Jones
• Jerome Milgram
• Robert Jessen
• David Cook
• Don Glasell
• Richard (Dick) Stearns
• Leo H. “Buddy” Bombard
• Hans Gustavsson
• David B. Vietor
• Lou Varney
• John Weakley
• Sam Richmond
• James Klauser
• Mike Dills
• Børge Quorning
• Gordon Isco
• Ralph Carlton
• Buzz Schofield
• David Lindsay
• Bill Mattison
• Susan Colby
• Bill Knowles
• George Lewis
• David Forbes
• Peter Briggs
• Hayden Goodrick
• Noel Field
• Colin Golder
• Paul von Zalinski
• Philip Ramser
• Talbot Wilson
• Dan Clapp
• Gerard Bosse
• Samuel Wakeman
• Will Jeffers
• Pete Ives
• Rob Ball
• Jim Hokanson
• Jeremy Rogers
• Richard Bartlett
• Mike Birch
• Al Chandler
• Brad White
• Peter de Savary
• Joan Rinken
• Jim DeWitt
• Robert Keefe
• Kenneth Coventry
• Ron Packer
• Bryan Dawson
• Alejandro Alonso
• Mary Savage
• Merle Hallett
• Steve Henkel
• Mary “Bushy” Bushnell Henry
• Sheila McKee

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