Gary E. Thorbjornson was a 41-year-old commercial fisherman from the Port Clyde and Tenants Harbor area of Maine who was last associated with Port Clyde after the mid-July 2005 sinking of the FV Sirius. The Sirius reportedly was taking on water with about 10,000 pounds of groundfish aboard when the crew prepared to abandon ship.

Reports say Gary went below deck to retrieve survival suits and the boat rolled, throwing him and two crewmen overboard. His 17-year-old son, Garrett Thorbjornson, and 19-year-old crewman David Wilgus reached a life raft, shared a survival suit, fired flares, and were rescued within about an hour by the fishing vessel Irene & Alton. Public memorials and obituaries describe Gary as lost at sea; the missing-person record provided does not list a recovery and NamUs-style information identifies him as missing from Port Clyde.

He is remembered by family and the Port Clyde fishing community and is listed on the St. George Fishermen’s Memorial at Marshall Point Lighthouse. Was anyone in the Port Clyde fishing community on the water that week who remembers details about the Sirius or the search that followed?