Benjamin Eugene Day was 21 years old when he was last known to be in the Bass Harbor area of Tremont, Maine, on February 24, 1991. NamUs lists him as a White/Caucasian male with brown hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 9 inches tall and about 175 pounds. The personal details recorded for him are spare but important: he had a distinctive dental characteristic on the upper right side of his jaw, where an adult tooth overlapped a baby tooth.
He was reportedly wearing gray jeans, a black T-shirt, black hip boots, and a blue baseball hat when he disappeared.
The circumstances place Benjamin aboard the fishing vessel Risky Business, which sank off Frenchboro, Maine. Online case summaries connected to NamUs identify Benjamin as a crew member, and related missing-person entries identify Lawrence Wayne Robbins as the captain and Norman Closson III as another crew member connected to the same vessel. The available public information does not provide a detailed minute-by-minute account of the sinking, the weather, the vessel’s condition, or the exact location where the boat went down, leaving the public record focused on the essential fact that Benjamin vanished in a maritime disaster off the Maine coast.
Benjamin’s case was reported to the Maine Marine Patrol on February 25, 1991, one day after his last recorded contact, and NamUs identifies Maine Marine Patrol - Division II as the investigating agency. His missing-person record is listed under NamUs case number MP60700, and Uncovered also lists the case with the same NamUs number, the same missing date, and Bass Harbor, Maine, as the location. The official public record does not state that Benjamin has been located, and the case continues to be preserved in missing-person databases so that any future information, however small, can still be connected to him.
The broader setting of the case is also important. Bass Harbor and Frenchboro are part of a coastal Maine region where working on the water is deeply tied to family, livelihood, and community life. A disappearance at sea leaves a particularly painful kind of uncertainty, because families and communities are left not only with grief, but with the absence of clear answers. Maine State Police note that the Office of Chief Medical Examiner is the official state clearinghouse for missing people in Maine and uses NamUs to help track and manage missing-person case files, underscoring why Benjamin’s record remains part of the public missing-person system.
Benjamin Day’s story is therefore one of a young man who went to work aboard the Risky Business and did not come home after the vessel sank off Frenchboro on February 24, 1991. The known facts are limited but meaningful: he was 21, from the Bass Harbor area, physically described in NamUs with identifying dental information and clothing, and connected to a fishing vessel loss that also involved Lawrence Robbins and Norman Closson III. The case remains a quiet and painful maritime missing-person case from Hancock County, Maine, carried forward through official records and public databases in the hope that the unanswered parts of what happened to Benjamin Eugene Day may one day be resolved.Last Seen: Feb 24, 1991
