Capt Joe & Sons Inc

Specialties

Captain Joe and Sons Is Celebrating It’s 60^th year in business. We handle live lobsters direct from boats and never keep lobsters for longer than 24 hours.

We also only buy lobsters locally and do not source lobsters from Maine or Canada insuring you fresh day boat caught quality lobsters.

History

Established in 1953.

The History of Captain Joe & Sons

Captain Joe Ciaramitaro was born in Detroit, Michigan on January 6, 1915. He was two years old when his father died. His family then went back to Sicily where he learned to fish. At the age of fifteen he returned to the United States and settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts where he fished on several trawlers.

Captain Joe met and married Felicia Curcuru at the age of 23 in 1938. With the help of Ben Curcuru, Captain Joe had his first boat built — the «Ben and Josephine».

The Ben and Josephine was launched in March of 1941, however the vessel was sunk off the coast of Maine by a German U-​Boat.

When Captain Joe tried to board the Ben and Josephine to get the compass out of the Germans thought he was going to radio the Coast Guard with the location of the Germans. The Germans shot at him with machine guns so he came out of the Pilot House with his hands in the up and without the compass.

The crew of the Ben and Josephine got into the lifeboat and row