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Lorraine St Clair Williams, an 84-year-old resident of Barrouallie was found floating in the waters between Young Island and Rock Fort on Tuesday.
At about 8:45 am, officers stationed at the St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Coast Guard Base in Calliaqua received a report of a body floating in the waters at Villa.
When Coast Guard officers responded, they retrieved the body and it was later identified as Williams.
At the time the elderly man was clad in a black and grey t-Shirt, and a purple, grey, white and black pair of short pants.
His body was taken to the Coast Guard Base at Calliaqua, where he was pronounced dead by the District Medical Officer (DMO).
Captain Mulzac remembered
The presentation party at last Monday’s ceremony, with Andre Liverpool and Rupert Mulzac (front 2nd and 3rd from left respectively.)
Sunday 31st January, 2021 marked the 50th Anniversary of the death of Captain Hugh Nathaniel Mulzac, the Vincentian national who became the first black man to have gained a Shipping Master’s Certificate in the United States of America, and to later captain the ‘SS Booker T. Washington’.
The ‘SS Booker T. Washington’ was a United States Maritime Commission (MC) Liberty ship, first of 17 Liberty ships that were named after African-Americans, and which, under Capt. Mulzac’s watch, made 22 round trip voyages ferrying troops and supplies to Europe and the Pacific theatre between 1942 and 1947.