On February 11, 1991, Shawn W. Perkins, a 20-year-old White male from Maine, was last known to be in Eastport, a coastal community in Washington County. Public missing-person records identify him as male, White/Caucasian, approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall and 140 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. The available case information places him aboard the fishing vessel Miss Anne as it left Eastport to go scallop dragging, a familiar but dangerous kind of work along the Maine coast.
He was reportedly wearing a plaid flannel shirt, a charcoal-gray jacket, blue jeans, dark brown rubber boots, and he had a wallet with a chain.
The trip was supposed to end in Stockton Springs, Maine, but the vessel never arrived as planned. When the boat failed to reach its destination, it was reported missing, turning what should have been a working fishing trip into a search for Shawn and the others aboard. Public summaries of the case state that an intense United States Coast Guard search followed, but the search did not locate Shawn or the vessel itself. The only confirmed item found was a skiff belonging to the fishing vessel, a small discovery that deepened the uncertainty rather than answering what had happened at sea.
Later reporting about Maine fishermen lost at sea places the disappearance of the Miss Anne within a painful period for the state’s fishing communities. A Bar Harbor Story account, written in the context of remembering people lost to the sea, notes that in 1991 the Miss Ann, described as another scallop dragger traveling from Eastport to Stockton Springs, went missing with three men aboard: Alfred Hall, Thomas Hall, and Shawn Perkins. That account also notes that another scalloper, Risky Business, was presumed lost only about two weeks later, underscoring how dangerous the work was and how deeply these losses marked coastal Maine families and communities.
Shawn’s case is listed in NamUs as Missing Person case MP39516, and Uncovered also summarizes the case as a missing-person matter connected to the vessel’s departure from Eastport and its failure to arrive in Stockton Springs. Maine State Police explain that the state’s public missing-person list is not a complete list of all missing people in Maine and that the Office of Chief Medical Examiner uses NamUs to help track and manage missing-person case files, which gives context for why Shawn’s federal NamUs listing remains an important public record.
For Shawn Perkins and those who loved him, the known facts are few but heavy: he was 20 years old, he was last seen leaving Eastport on a scallop dragger, the boat did not arrive in Stockton Springs, the Coast Guard searched intensely, and only the vessel’s skiff was found. The public record does not provide a recovery date or a confirmed resolution, and available sources continue to present him as missing. The case stands as both a missing-person investigation and a story of loss at sea: a young man went out to work aboard the Miss Anne on February 11, 1991, vanished along with the vessel and other crew members, and left behind a small trail of details that still define the case today—Eastport, the scallop dragger, the planned trip to Stockton Springs, the unsuccessful search, the recovered skiff, and the enduring absence of Shawn W. Perkins.Last Seen: Feb 11, 1991
