Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial aka 'Man at the Wheel' by Leonard Craske

Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial aka 'Man at the Wheel' by Leonard Craske (StreetView)
It is an eight-foot tall, bronze statue of a fisherman dressed in oilskins standing braced at the wheel on the sloping deck of his ship. It is positioned so that the fisherman is looking out over Gloucester Harbor. The fisherman in the sculpture was modeled after Capt. Clayton Morrissey, a prominent Gloucester fisherman, once the captain of the Effie M. Morrissey.[2] A small plaque on the north or street-facing side of the base reads, "Memorial To The Gloucester Fisherman, August 23, 1923." A larger recessed panel on the front or harbor-facing side of the base holds an inscription of bronze letters taken from the Bible's Psalm 107, which reads: "They That Go Down To Sea In Ships 1623-1923."
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