Charles E Weems Jr., known affectionately as “Sonny,” was a boat owner and commercial processor from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He...

Carroll E. Williams, affectionately known as “Peck” was a commercial fisherman and former baseball player from Biloxi, Mississippi. He...

Born on May 13, 1911, in Biloxi, Mike Sekul was the son of Steven C. Sekul and Lucia Trebotich. Steven C. Sekul was an immigrant from...

Born August 17th, 1935, Joseph H. Leckich arrived at the legacy of a seafood workforce that he would help shape throughout his life. His...

Captain John Mavar was a fisherman, boat owner and shipbuilder who had a modest beginning but achieved stunning success. Mavar was born...

The “Bohemian” or seasonal seafood worker helped shape the expanding town of Biloxi, Mississippi during the turn of the twentieth century....

Sam Smolcich was a boat owner and commercial fisherman who lived in the Point Cadet neighborhood of Biloxi. The Smolich family immigrated...

Born in Parrish, Alabama in 1911, Thomas C. Plylar was one of five children born to George and Margrate Plylar. George was a...

Anthony “Tony” Mihojevich was a captain and boat owner who made his career upon the bountiful waters of the Gulf Coast in Biloxi,...

William “Billy” Thiroux is a boat owner and commercial fisherman from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. For over sixty years, Thiroux operated...

For over thirty-five years, Thomas Schultz, Jr. captained his Biloxi lugger, the Reva Rose. Thomas was born on October 22, 1932; he grew...

Richard C. Kopszywa, affectionately known as “Rick” is a boat owner and captain from Biloxi, Mississippi. He is notable as being the...

Peter Martin Skrmetta was a boat owner and captain who found success in his adopted home of Biloxi, Mississippi. Skrmetta captained the...

If one were to walk down East Rodriguez Street of the community of d’Iberville in 1986, they would likely encounter the historical boat...

John Joseph Kersanac a boat owner and captain, born in late 1884, at Lovran, Istria County, Croatia. John was the son of Joseph Kersanac...

Leon Vern Richie Sr. was a commercial seafood processor from Biloxi, Mississippi, born on November 3, 1924. Leon was the son of Eula and...

Captain Edwin Jacquet is a boat owner and boat builder from Biloxi, Mississippi. Edwin Jacquet was born in 1926 and got his start in the...

James Sidney King, better known as “Captain Sid,” is remembered for a lifetime of shrimping and love of the Gulf Coast way of life. Born...

Wilfred Patrick Barry, Sr. was born October 12, 1923, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and was raised on Cadet Street on Biloxi’s Point Cadet, in...

Richard Purchner was a boat owner, captain, and commercial fisherman who was a New Orleans native and later moved to the Mississippi Gulf...