Wooden Ships, Iron Men,
Gloucester Ladies, and Man's Best
Friend
Bibliography
- The primary source of information for this web site is
the material gathered by the Welch family in 1920, and then passed down over the
years. For this we are grateful to
·
- Margaret Arnold Welch
- Helen Welch Cotter
- Hildred Welch McGrath
- Louis Martin "Marty" Welch
- Thanks also to Torrey Arnold Welch for the genealogical information that he shared with
us.
- Thanks to Marcelle Comeau for
the extensive research on Martin Walsh (father of Capt. Marty Welch)
Books:
- The
Gloucester Book, Frank L. Cox, White & Gaffney
Printers, Gloucester, 1921
- The Book of the
Gloucester Fishermen, James B. Connolly, The John Day Company,
New
York, 1927
- American Fishermen, Albert Cook Church and James B. Connolly, Bonanza Books,
New
York, 1940
- Down to the Sea, The Fishing Schooners of
Gloucester, Joseph E. Garland, David
R. Godine Publisher, Boston, 1983
- The American Fishing
Schooners, Howard I. Chapelle, W.W. Norton & Company,
New
York, 1973
- New England Fishing
Schooners, Joseph C. O'Hearn, Kalmbach Publishing Co.,
Milwaukee, 1947
- The Port of Gloucester, James B. Connolly, Doubleday, Doran & Company
Inc., New
York, 1940
- Warf and Fleet, Gordon W. Thomas, Nautical Reproductions of
Gloucester, 1977
- Gold Star Record of
Massachusetts, Edited by Eben Putnam,
Published by The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1929
- Fast and Able, Life Stories of Great
Gloucester Fishing Vessels, Gordon W. Thomas, Gloucester 350th Anniversary Celebration, Inc., 1973
- Builders of
Gloucester's Prosperity, Gordon W. Thomas, Cape Ann Savings Bank, 1952
- Gloucester on the Wind,
America's Greatest
Fishing Port in the Days of Sail, Joseph E. Garland, Arcadia Publishing, 1995
- Cape Ann: Cape America, Herbert A. Kenny, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1971
- Thomas F. McManus and the American Fishing
Schooners: An Irish-American Success Story, W.M.P. Dunne, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1994
- Gloucester Master Mariners Association
Year Book 1930, Atlantic
Fisherman, Inc. 1930
- Gloucester Master Mariners Association
Year Book 1925, Atlantic
Fisherman, Inc. 1925
- Hail
Columbia! The Rise and Fall of a
Schooner, Dana Story, Ten Pound
Island Book Company, Gloucester 1985
- Goin' Fishin' The
Story of the Deep
Sea Fishermen of
New
England, Wesley
George Pierce, Marine Research Society, Salem 1934
- Frame-Up! The Story of the People and
Shipyards of Essex, Massachusetts, Dana Story, Ten Pound Island Book Company,
Gloucester 1986
Newspaper and Magazine Articles:
- Gloucester Times, "Arrange Details of Race Tomorrow, Local
Committee Formed to Meet Halifax Representative Here
Tomorrow", October, 1920
- Gloucester Times, "Skippers Ready to Ship as
Hands", October 19,
1920
- newspaper clipping-unknown
source, "Rival Boats All Set For Great
Race", James B. Connolly, 1920
- Boston Globe, "Capt. Welch Well Known Along Boston Waterfront", October. 20, 1920
- Boston Globe, "Workmen Overhauling Esperanto
Preparatory To Race Off Halifax",
October. 22, 1920
- Gloucester Times, "Esperanto Starts for Great Race, All
Gloucester Out to Give Schooner a Big
Sendoff", October, 1920
- New York Times, front page, "Esperanto Defeats Canadian Schooner in
First of 3 Races", October 31,
1920
- New York Times, front page, "Esperanto Wins Fisherman's
Cup", November 2,
1920
- newspaper clipping-unknown
source, "Esperanto with Cup, Purse on Way
Home", by Herbert W. Murkland (Traveler Ship News Reporter), November 2,
1920
- Boston Globe, "Cup Presented to Esperanto's
Agent", by Frank B. Sibley,
November 2, 1920
- Boston American, "Marty Given Silver Trophy", November 3, 1920
- The Nautical Gazette, "Americans Win Big Fishermen's
Race", November 6,
1920
- Boston Globe, "Esperanto Delayed by Adverse Winds,
Noses
Way Into Gloucester With Halifax Cup at 2 A M - Cook Dislocates
Shoulder", by Frank P. Sibley, November
7, 1920
- Boston Globe, "Marty Welch and Crew Idols of
All", November 8,
1920
- newspaper clipping-unknown
source, Special to the Transcript,
"Another Esperanto
Victory", November 9,
1920,
- newspaper clipping-unknown
source, "Victorious Crew Gloucester's
Guests", 1920
- newspaper clipping-unknown
source, "Esperanto's Cup in Talbot's
Window", 1920
- Evening
Telegram-New
York,
"Esperanto's Skipper Gives
Measurements of Ideal Boat for Transatlantic Race", by Roy C. Elmendorf, March 13,
1921
- Gloucester Times, ""Marty" Welch" Racing Skipper Died at
Noon",
April 16, 1935
- Gloucester Times, "Death of "Marty" Welch Removes Familiar
Figure", April 17,
1935
- Gloucester Times, "Mariners Pay Last Tribute to "Marty"
Welch", April 19,
1935
- Gloucester Times, "Builders of
Gloucester's Prosperity, Schooner
Esperanto", Gordon W. Thomas,
February 2, 1952
- Yankee Magazine, "We're Off To Win The Cup!", Irene M. Patten, September 1969
- The Outlook, "They Who Go Over The Sea For
Us", June 15,
1921
- The Nation, "The New England Fisherman", Nov 10, 1920
- The Literary Digest, "Captain Marty's Great
Race", November 20,
1920
- Atlantic Fisherman, September, 1921
- Atlantic Fisherman, January, 1922
- Atlantic Fisherman, February, 1922
- Atlantic Fisherman, March, 1922
- Atlantic Fisherman, May, 1922
- Atlantic Fisherman, August, 1922
- The
Mentor, "The Story of Fishing and Fishermen,
Gravure Pictures of Sea Life", July
1923
- Collier's Weekly,
"The Flying Gloucesterman", James
B. Connolly, December 25 1920

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