THELMA BEE
Artist rendering of the THELMA BEE at the Annual Blessing of the Fleet. Biloxi lugger, length=35ft Built 1946 in Louisiana Owned by Jack...
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ORA MAE
Wooden Lugger; 40-50 ft Built by George Ross, Jr. – Heron Bay/Dauphin Island, AL (circa 1870) The ORA MAE was the first of several boats...
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LITTLE PUMPKIN
Wooden trawler, length=42 ft. Owned and refurbished by Earl Wildon Ross The LITTLE PUMPKIN was the first actual shrimp boat owned by Earl...
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EVA MARIE
Biloxi Lugger, length=47.7; beam=5.9 Built in 1936 by Oral “Fatty Jack” Covacevich of Covacevich Brothers Shipyard, Biloxi, MS Owned by...
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EMMA HARVEY
Dual mast schooner, length=37 feet, beam= 14 feet; and hole depth 6 feet. Built in the 1891 by Casimer Harvey in Biloxi, MS. Named for...
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DEBORAH
Biloxi Lugger, length=37.7; beam=12 Built in 1929 by Jules Galle. Owned by John Skrnich, Jr. The DEBORAH was purchased in 1935 by John...
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CLYDE R
Biloxi lugger, length=45 feet; Wooden Built in 1930 by Adolph “Doffie” Ross in Biloxi, MS. Named for his youngest son, Clyde Ross. The...
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MYSTERY
Serendipitously named the “MYSTERY”, the fishing vessel owned by Biloxi’s Mateo “Mike” Marinovich, mostly remains that… a mystery. While...
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Mateo (Mike) Marinovich
Mateo Marinovich was born in Milne, Brac Dalmatia, Austria and immigrated to America arriving at the Port of New York in 1905 under the...
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Jack Andrew Gazzo, Sr.
Captain Jack Gazzo, Sr. was the third generation of Gazzo’s in Biloxi after Frank Gazzo immigrated to the United States from Italy in...
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William Cruso
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, William Cruso migrated to Biloxi in 1904 and, as many children of that era, he began working in a seafood...
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Cruso Canning Company
Cruso Canning Company, also known as C.C. Company, was established in 1918 by William Cruso. The small factory was located on Point Cadet...
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Margaret “Maggie” Allen Ross
The matriarch of the vast Ross/Allen family was born in Alabama Port, Alabama to George Allen and Rosa Wescovich Allen. But her place in...
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Gregory “Grego” Taliancich
Gregory Taliancich was one of three children born in Olga, Louisiana to Anthony Taliancich of Vrac, Yugoslavia and Lena Helen Kuluz...
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George Ross
George Ross was born in Strasbourg, France to George and Emma Therese Holland Ross of Baden-Baden, Germany. Having immigrated to the...
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Earl Wildon Ross
Born on December 13, 1947 in the old Biloxi Hospital located on the beach, Earl Ross grew up “in the yard” of his grandparents' home on...
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Dominick Jurich
The Jurich Family at the 1953 Blessing of the Fleet. Domenik Jurac of Bobovisce, Brac, Yugoslavia arrived to the United States aboard the...
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Vernon Lepre, Sr.
Of Italian and French descent, Vernon J. Lepre, Sr. was born in Biloxi, MS to Armand and Beulah Parker Lepre. At the age of 14, Vernon...
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Peter Halat, Sr.
The second of three children born to Mardo and Frances Grassi Halat who immigrated from Brac, Yugoslavia, Peter Halat, Sr. was of the...
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Oduse “Dago” Trahan
Born in Abbeville, Louisiana, Oduse Trahan was one of nine children born to Augustin Trahan and Constance Faulk Trahan. In 1917, the...
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