A March gale sank the Claud W. Somers, and that’s not all it destroyed. It ended a tradition of Black skipjack captain-owners on the Chesapeake Bay.
— and ended a tradition of Black skipjack captain-owners on the Chesapeake Bay. Thompson was one of the last two Black captains to dredge for oysters under the shallow-draft, two-bateau wooden sailboats built for Chesapeake oyster dredging. Many of the remaining skipjacks are now berthed at Chesapeake maritime museums. The restored Claud W.
Joining Thompson, 55, and Gerald, 23, were Thompson’s older brother, George, 65; his nephew, Carter, 33; his wife Esther’s cousin, Thomas James, 20; and a friend, Levin Johnson, 44. William said he, too, was scheduled to go, but he had to help a friend. Kevin, the youngest of Thompson’s eight children at age 15, showed up, but his father told him to go to school instead.About 11 a.m., Kevin felt the walls in his 10th-grade class in Princess Anne shake.
“For me, it was like a dream stolen,” said Kevin, who entered the military. “My mother was distraught, and she totally abandoned everything about the water. She lost a husband, she lost a son, she lost a nephew, a brother-in-law and her cousin. Five people. So I respected that. I found other things to do.”Members of the Wallace family have heard the questions.
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