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Captain since 1994, and president of father's company, Portland Tugboat since 1995.

MR and cold Sunday dinners - A perfect match

Through the years, the Fournier family would spend Sunday afternoons stopping by the docks to check out the tugboats and then heading over to Grandma Catherine Fournier's home in

Boston for dinner. If anything, it wasn't the food that Fournier would remember about those afternoons, but the times that he would sit on his grandmother's stairs and engross himself in the latest editions of MR that she had saved for him. "I would spend hours sitting on those stairs with a stack of magazines," said Fournier, who cites the Navy Annuals of the 1980's as his favorite issues," while my friends were reading sports magazines, I was picking up the latest editions of MR."

Since he had so intently been reading his

MRs, he would completely forget about the time and would have to face a cold Sunday dinner — a small inconvenience for being able to read about what he dubs as his "livelihood."

Years later, it was Fournier's grandmother, who once again provided him with his liveli- hood — even after her death in 1993. As he sift- ed through her belongings, Fournier found a big cardboard box that looked as though it had been collecting dust — knew he hit pay dirt when he discovered it was filled with old issues of MR.

As he moved on to high school, he tried once again — and succeeded — in incorporated his love for the magazine into another class project — a collage for art class encompassing various naval ships and tugs pasted together.

The 1980's also brought tragedy for the tug- boat-oriented family, as it was on April 11, 1985, that Fournier's older brother,

William, 20, died while trying to res- cue one of his crewmembers from suffocating in the tug's hatch. When the crewman hadn't returned, William went to look for him and passed out - , eventually succumb- ing to lack of oxy- gen - just as the crewman had. A Maritime Reporters, news item that ran in the June 1985 edition of MR mentioned

William's heroic efforts, as well as his accom- plishment of sailing a jack-up barge from

Louisiana to the Dominican Republic at just 18 years-old. "I was proud that MR did that for my brother,"

Fournier quietly said.

The Fournier Tradition Continues

Today, as president of the family business that his father has built upon through the years, Fournier owes much of his love for tugboats and the sea to his "industry bible."

Even though he should have been studying instead of reading MR. he was only contributing to one thing in his life, besides his family that is important to him - his dedication to the maritime industry. "I was brought up to love tugs and the maritime industry," he said. "Not only is it my livelihood — it's my life."

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Capt. William Fournier

Captain William Fournier, vice president of the Fournier Marine

Corporation died April 11. He was 20 years of age and resided in Bel- fast, Maine. Mr. Fournier was cap- tain of the company's self-propelled jack-up barge Harold Holder, and, at the age of 18, sailed her from

Homa, La. to Santo Domingo, Do- minican Republic as master.

Mr. Fournier and crew member

Daniel Govoni died in an attempt to rescue a third man, Bichard

Lisa, who was trapped in a barge.

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A place in maritime history — the orig- inal piece on William Fournier's death that ran in the June 1985 edition of

MR/EN.

Captain William Fournier 4A Circle 332 on Reader Service Card