Martin Leander Welch was a fishing schooner captain out of Gloucester, Massachusetts

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Gloucester is a city on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is part of Massachusetts' North Shore. The population was 28,789 at the 2010 U.S. Census...

. He was captain of the Schooner Esperanto in 1920 when it defeated the Canadian Schooner Delawana

Schooner Delawana

-International Fishing Vessel Championship, 1920:Delawana represented Canada at the first International Fishing Vessel Championship races in 1920 under command of Capt. Thomas Himmelman. On 11 October 1920, Delawana defeated the Canadian schooner Gilbert B. Walters, sailed by Capt. Angus Walters,...

 in the first International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Born in Digby, Nova Scotia

Digby, Nova Scotia

Digby is a Canadian town in western Nova Scotia. It is the shiretown and largest population centre in Digby County.The town is situated on the western shore of the Annapolis Basin near the entrance to the Digby Gut which connects the basin to the Bay of Fundy.Named after Admiral Robert Digby, RN,...

, he moved to Gloucester in 1880, where he commanded the schooners Lucille, Titania, Lucania, Navahoe, Killarney, Benjamin A. Smith, Schooner Esperanto, Elsie, and the motor sailer Thelma.

He died in Gloucester in 1935.

External links

• Capt. Marty Welch & the Gloucester Fishing