Brian McPherson, 33, was last seen February 10, 1991, while serving as a crew member aboard the 98-foot steel crab fishing vessel Barbarossa. The boat was about 30 miles west of St. The Barbarossa never returned to port and could not be contacted after that call.

A multiunit search by the U.S. Coast Guard using aircraft and ships was launched but, despite life rafts, survival suits, and emergency beacons aboard, no trace of the vessel or its six crew — Brian McPherson, Donald Bright, George Brandenburg, Dennis Olberding, Timothy Schmitt, and Darrell Gross — was found. Severe weather with 30-knot winds and 14-foot seas hampered the effort, and the vessel is presumed to have capsized and sunk. Does anyone have information about the Barbarossa or its crew that could shed light on what happened that night?