Data and Tools
Free data and tools about Gloucester, Rockport, Essex and Manchester-by-the-Sea.
Download our datasets as JSON, CSV or Excel files, or embed our tools on your own site. Everything here is free under our Free Access and Attribution Policy: credit Cape Ann Current with a link back, and follow the rules of the original sources, which each resource lists. No account, key or signup.
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Dataset
Cape Ann maritime remembrance records
Reviewed records of vessels, incidents and people from Cape Ann's maritime history, with each person's documented role, each town's documented connection, the sources behind every fact and the questions still open.
Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, Manchester · updated 2026-10-05
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Manchester lost at sea list, 1895 town history
A line-by-line transcription of the list of Manchester people lost at sea printed in D. F. Lamson's 1895 History of the Town of Manchester, with the printed page for every entry.
Manchester · updated 2026-10-05
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Gloucester Lost at Sea register, full index
Every entry in the City of Gloucester's Lost at Sea register, 6,626 in all, with the name, date, vessel, category and memorial flag exactly as the city recorded them, each linked to its page in the city's PDF. Also the 185 Rockport, Essex and Manchester-by-the-Sea connections the register's wording suggests, marked as candidates to verify.
Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, Manchester · updated 2026-10-05
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Gloucester lost at sea, year by year
Yearly, decade and calendar-month counts calculated from the City of Gloucester's Lost at Sea register: names recorded, split into fishing, trading and other, plus the number of named vessels and of vessels the register says were lost with their entire crew.
Gloucester · updated 2026-10-05
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Gloucester lost at sea by year
A chart of names recorded in Gloucester's Lost at Sea register, and of vessels lost, by year or by decade, with a table of every number.
Gloucester · updated 2026-10-05
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This month in Cape Ann maritime history
Shows reviewed maritime anniversaries month by month, by town. It opens on the current month in Eastern Time.
Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, Manchester · updated 2026-10-05
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Cape Ann maritime archive search
Search reviewed vessels, incidents and people by name, town, year or kind of event, with links to every source.
Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, Manchester · updated 2026-10-05
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Cape Ann maritime timeline
A dated list of reviewed incidents and the events within them (grounding, rescue, total loss, sale), with date precision shown.
Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, Manchester · updated 2026-10-05
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