“No one who has driven along the shore of Gloucester harbor in Massachusetts has failed to notice one of the most famous memorials in New England, the statue of the Gloucester Fisherman. It is therefore interesting to record here that the fisherman who gave the sculptor his model and his inspiration was Capt. Herbert Thompson of this village at the wheel of his schooner in a northeast gale.”
Melville C. Freeman in the “History of Cape Porpoise” 1955