The short answer is Mary Agnes Whalen was Captain John Tabeling"s wife and mother to James Harold. They ran the Reliable Fuel Supply Co., the company that, from 1962 to 1971, owned the ship launched in 1938 as the S.T. KIDDOO, In 1958 that ship was...

Rich Naruszewicz was interviewed by PortSide NewYork's Jenny Kane in 2014. Scroll down to bottom of the page for audio recording Synopsis of Interview (times are approximate, text is not word-for-word but provides a gist of the audio recording) I...

Synopsis of interview with Heidi Benedikt, former crew member of the MARY A. WHALEN. Recording times in parenthesis are aproximate.  Go to bottom of the page to hear the full interview    (0:10) The delegate of the union convinced me...