- UFiSH Andrea Gail Page On November 4, 1991 a major storm, originally referred to as the Halloween Nor'Easter and hence recoined the Perfect Storm by a meterologist and made famous by Sebastian Junger's book, harrassed boats from Nova Scotia down to the New Jersey coast. The 70' longliner Andrea Gail went down in that storm and with her went the crew of swordfishermen Captain William Billy Tyne, ...www.ufish.com/Andrea_Gail/AndreaGail.htm