The Overfalls Maritime Museum Foundation of Lewes inducted its 2010 class of individuals into the Delaware Maritime Hall of Fame, October 9, 2010
10/9/2010
The Overfalls Maritime Museum Foundation of Lewes inducted its 2010 class of individuals into the Delaware Maritime Hall of Fame during ceremonies Saturday, Oct. 9.
The purpose of the hall of fame is “to honor those who have given uniquely and generously of skill, energy, heart, and time in building Delaware’s maritime heritage.”
Members inducted this year include:
- Henry Fisher, deceased, a Lewes resident and river pilot who figured prominently in the nation’s war for independence;
- Joseph Sudler Lofland III of Milford, instrumental in restoring the Vinyard Shipyard in Milford and three of the unique vessels built there;
- Dr. James E. Marvil, a veteran of the World Way II Army Medical Corps and one of the founders and first president of Lewes Historical Society;
- Capt. James S. Roberts, a member of the Pilots Association for the Bay and River Delaware and president of the State Board of Pilot Commissioners; and
- Wilson M. Vinyard, deceased, founder of the Vinyard Shipyard in Milford, which constructed approximately 150 vessels, from 32- to 110-feet long, between 1896 and 1951.
- John Robert Warren, deceased, a surfman and Lewes native who served in the U.S. Life Saving Station at Cape Henlopen beginning in 1912, received the Hall of Fame’s Meritorious Service Award for decades of service in maritime rescue work, education and business.
The inductees were honored with two ceremonies. One brought them all together around the black granite Hall of Fame marker in the new park area alongside the Lightship Overfalls in Lewes. The newest Hall of Famers and past recipients of the honor gathered for photographs around the marker. The moveable feast then relocated to Lewes Yacht Club where a formal induction ceremony was held following a banquet.
