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 2025, their information submitted to Scuttlebutt Sailing News is listed below in the order it was published:

• Gaudenzio Bonini, Matteo Auguadro
• Tony Correa
• Larry Law
• Elizabeth Anne Keys
• His Highness the Aga Khan
• John Dinsdale
• Bob Evelyn
• Don Casey
• Line Markert
• Nick Nadalin
• Matt Mitchell
• Don Stokes
• Jean-Marie Finot
• Garry Hoyt
• Michael Ellison
• Robert Douglas
• John Muir
• Frank Davenport
• Mark Ellis
• Pat Healy
• Tom Shadden
• Hugh Treharne
• William J. Baxter Jr.
• Dave Hood
• Peter Tong
• Paul Antrobus
• Lindsay Cunningham
• Bary Gately
• Dean Cady
• Alan Adelkind
• Peter Lester
• Eddie Adams
• Terry Arndt
• Jesse Terry
• Roger Vaughan
• Don Trask
• Andy Kostanecki
• Charles Tobias
• Charles Beek
• Hubert Raudaschl
• Jane Anne Pincus
• Kevin Keogh

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