Three more names were added to the Lost at Sea monument in Morse Park in Murrells Inlet on Sunday.
The monument was first erected and unveiled in April 2006 after the family of Johnny Brown raised money and found a spot for it.
Johnny Brown and two others were off the coast of the Outer Banks in North Carolina when a rogue wave hit the boat. Two of Brown's shipmates were found, but Brown remains missing.
That happened on April 2, 2005, and every year since, Brenda Brown and her family attend the ceremony where more names are added each year.
"For most people you go to a funeral one time and then you just visit the grave from time to time. But with this we go to a funeral every year," Brown said, adding she had been dreading the ceremony all week.
"But when you get here and see what it does for other people that has family on there, it makes it all worth it."
In all, 28 names are on the monument with the earliest "lost at sea" dating back to 1925.
The three names that were added this year include:
Master Sergeant Charles Causey of Conway who was a prisoner of war in WWII. He was being transported to a Japanese freighter when the freighter was torpedoed by an American submarine.
Melvin Wayne Hobbs left the port of Georgetown on October 16, 1970 in a shrimp trawler. While some of his boat was recovered, Hobbs never was.
James Heyward Oliver was on the same trawler as Hobbs, and was also never found.
