Eight Bells in 2023

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, their information submitted to Scuttlebutt Sailing News in 2023 is listed below in the order it was published:

• Dave Sinclair
• Maurice Daniher
• Charles Morgan
• King Constantine II
• Ray Teborek
• David Howard
• Lenny Shabes
• Felix Sienra
• Al Haeger
• Victoria Matthews

• Bill Lieberman
• Hank Easom
• Ken Warby
• Peter Bowker
• Syd Fischer
• Bruce Johnston
• Gonzalo Diaz
• Fletcher Driscoll
• Robert Stewart
• George Graf, Jr.
• John R. Sherwood, III
• James Eddy
• Mike Wagner
• Gordon Lightfoot
• Buddy Melges
• Ted Beier
• Herb Larrabee
• Sir James Hardy
• Dan Dickison
• Robin Aisher
• George Andreadis
• Richard Barkow
• Donald J. Matthews
• Kenneth L. Morrison
• Captain William “Bill” Pickney
• Jimmy Buffett
• Sandy Martin
• Shelley Blythe Vaughan
• Kevin Eley
• Hale Walcoff
• Cedric Gyles
• William Gross
• Bob Dill
• Mark Bowers
• Judy Clagett McLennan
• Jack Lynch
• Marshall Souder Lawson
• Doug Baker
• Knight Coolidge
• Jerome R. Kirby Jr.
• Thomas Blackwell

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