Eight Bells in 2024

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 2024, their information submitted to Scuttlebutt Sailing News is listed below in the order it was published:

• Barton Jahncke
• Pam Rorke Levy
• Dick Mitchell
• Rene Coudert
• Bill Hyatt
• John Clark
• Lang Walker
• Jim Marta
• Gloria Borrego
• Patience Wales
• Knud Wibroe
• Diana Mautz
• Dick Heinl
• Charles M. Barclay
• Sally Helme
• David Yule
• Marcel Beaudin
• Tony Morgan
• Wayne Pignolet
• John B.B. Whitton
• Allegra Mertz Torrey
• Linda Merkle
• Donald Street, Jr.
• Ed Huntsman
• Paul Lindenberg
• Ken Legler
• Charlie Shoemaker
• Liam O’Keefe
• James McCreary
• Bob Ross
• Bill Waite
• Will Harris
• Gloria Melges
• Scott Boye
• Walter Greene
• Kurt Hoehne
• Tommy Tognarelli
• Mary von Conta
• Reef Baker
• Bruce Tait
• Maggie Flanigan
• Mark White
• G. Sicotte Hamilton
• Wells Darling
• Penny Simmons
• Steve Haarstick
• Dennis Toews
• Jim Sackett
• William Alexander Abbott
• Evelyn Ross
• Ed Botterell
• Dan DeLave

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