H. Ross Maddocks, Navy veteran and lifelong sailor, passes away

H. Ross Maddocks, a United States Navy veteran, lifelong sailor, and former harbormaster, passed away on August 31, 2026, at the Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough.

Born in 1938 and raised in Boothbay Harbor, Maddocks had a 31-year career in the U.S. Navy following his graduation from Boothbay Region High School in 1956. His youth was marked by an affinity for the ocean, including time spent as a deckhand on the schooner Blue Dolphin. As a member of his high school's first graduating class, he and his brother also appeared as extras in the filming of the musical ‘Carousel’.