Hi Joe, have you got any time fame or what type of fishing industry they were ingauged in, with dories could be sealers or fisherman but it doesn't sound like whaler's with dories in a Packet & I've checked the Commisioner's report on whalers out of New England from 1784-1876 & found no Peerless there & found nothing on the little bit I have on sealers either. Coming out of Gloucester for any of the Banks ( the most important being the Grand Banks 7 then George's with the smaller Brown's, Western, Green, St. Pierre's & a ocean others including the Flemish Cap made famous by the recent movie The Perfect Storm about the recebnt loss of the Andrea Gale) it's more likely they were fisherman & Gloucester has lost more men & ships to those waters than some countries can claimed to have lost in wars. I also looked though some of Huntington, Creighton & Doerflinger, all who covered some of the Northeast's fishing trades & didn't come up lucky there either. It sounds like an interesting song, hope more comes of it. Barry