Oliver Wendell Hurlston He was born in Prinipula Nicaragua on 19 January 1919 to John and Katie Hurlston of South Sound. At the age of three his parents migrated back to Cayman and they resided with his grandparents Captain Charles and Annie Bush in South Sound. Oliver attended the government school in George Town under the Head Master the late Mr. Clifton Hunter. At the age of fifteen he went to sea with his grandfather Captain Charles Bush. He studied navigation from Captain Denham Thompson and Captain Thomas Dias. He sailed the schooners Jemson, Wembly and Lydia Wilson. He excelled in seamanship and at the age of eighteen he was Mate and Navigator on the Lydia Wilson with Captain Robert Alvert Ebanks. In 1939 they made history on a voyage with their catch of turtles earning the crew a staggering 16 pounds each; an unheard of amount at that time. In 1940 he signed on the schooner R.L Hustler as Mate and departed Cayman to go to the fishing grounds off the Nicaraguan coast to catch lobsters which they would sell in Colon, Panama. On their return voyage from Panama to Grand Cayman on 21 October 1940 the R.L Hustler was lost in a hurricane with all souls on board, with included many Caymanian passengers returning home for the Christmas holidays from Panama. Oliver Wendell Hurlston was 21 years old.

Oliver Wendell Hurlston He was born in Prinipula Nicaragua on 19 January 1919 to John and Katie Hurlston of South Sound. At the age of three his parents migrated back to Cayman and they resided with his grandparents Captain Charles and Annie Bush in South Sound. Oliver attended the government school in George Town under the Head Master the late Mr. Clifton Hunter. At the age of fifteen he went to sea with his grandfather Captain Charles Bush. He studied navigation from Captain Denham Thompson and Captain Thomas Dias. He sailed the schooners Jemson, Wembly and Lydia Wilson. He excelled in seamanship and at the age of eighteen he was Mate and Navigator on the Lydia Wilson with Captain Robert Alvert Ebanks. In 1939 they made history on a voyage with their catch of turtles earning the crew a staggering 16 pounds each; an unheard of amount at that time. In 1940 he signed on the schooner R.L Hustler as Mate and departed Cayman to go to the fishing grounds off the Nicaraguan coast to catch lobsters which they would sell in Colon, Panama. On their return voyage from Panama to Grand Cayman on 21 October 1940 the R.L Hustler was lost in a hurricane with all souls on board, with included many Caymanian passengers returning home for the Christmas holidays from Panama. Oliver Wendell Hurlston was 21 years old.