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

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• 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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