In Gloucester Gale , Dan Fuller tells the true story of Captain Joseph Silveira and the swordfishing schooner Dorcas during the August Gale of 1924. In this vivid narrative about men battling against a raging force of nature during the bygone age of wooden ships and harpoons, he reconstructs the events of that hurricane and the schooner Dorcas , the impact to the rest of the fleet out at Georges Bank, and their loved ones back in Gloucester.