Robert Begnaud served as captain of the PECK WILLIAMS for 18 years. Built in Mobile, Alabama, in 1971, the PECK WILLIAMS was the largest...

Peter Buzolich was born in Milna, Austria on December 24, 1886. He arrived at the Port of New York on the "Pennsylvania" on October 24,...

Artist rendering of the THELMA BEE at the Annual Blessing of the Fleet. Biloxi lugger, length=35ft Built 1946 in Louisiana Owned by Jack...

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...

Wooden trawler, length=42 ft. Owned and refurbished by Earl Wildon Ross The LITTLE PUMPKIN was the first actual shrimp boat owned by Earl...

Biloxi Lugger, length=47.7; beam=5.9 Built in 1936 by Oral “Fatty Jack” Covacevich of Covacevich Brothers Shipyard, Biloxi, MS Owned by...

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...

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...

Biloxi lugger, length=45 feet; Wooden Built in 1930 by Adolph “Doffie” Ross in Biloxi, MS. Named for his youngest son, Clyde Ross. The...

Serendipitously named the “MYSTERY”, the fishing vessel owned by Biloxi’s Mateo “Mike” Marinovich, mostly remains that… a mystery. While...

Mateo Marinovich was born in Milne, Brac Dalmatia, Austria and immigrated to America arriving at the Port of New York in 1905 under the...

Captain Jack Gazzo, Sr. was the third generation of Gazzo’s in Biloxi after Frank Gazzo immigrated to the United States from Italy in...

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...

Cruso Canning Company, also known as C.C. Company, was established in 1918 by William Cruso. The small factory was located on Point Cadet...

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...

Gregory Taliancich was one of three children born in Olga, Louisiana to Anthony Taliancich of Vrac, Yugoslavia and Lena Helen Kuluz...

George Ross was born in Strasbourg, France to George and Emma Therese Holland Ross of Baden-Baden, Germany. Having immigrated to the...

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...

The Jurich Family at the 1953 Blessing of the Fleet. Domenik Jurac of Bobovisce, Brac, Yugoslavia arrived to the United States aboard the...

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...