Mount Pleasant Magazine Nov/Dec 2020

22 www.ReadMPM.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.VOICEofMPpodcast.com L ike his father before him, Captain Edwin “Wayne” Magwood pursued one of the world’s most precarious and perilous professions. Rising well before dawn throughout the season, he piloted his 68-foot commercial shrimp boat through the heaviest swells and fiercest weather to a “secret place” where the most succulent catch could be brought to the surface in heavy nets. He was no stranger to danger and disaster aboard his vessel, Winds of Fortune. Yet he lost his life at age 67 in a most literally pedestrian manner — struck by a passing propane truck while crossing Coleman Boulevard at Mill Street, not far from his beloved Shem Creek. He was on his way to the docks his family built 50 years ago. The driver of the truck told police he hadn’t even realized he’d hit anyone. In the local shrimping industry’s heyday, Winds of Fortune was one of seventy-odd commercial fishing boats headquartered at Shem Creek, pulling in as much as BY BILL FARLEY AMANWHO DEFINED THE SHRIMPING INDUSTRY Captain Magwood Remembering