Minnetonka Set for Long Weather Patrol Voyage
The Long Beach based Coast Guard cutter Minnetonka will depart Nov 24 for Weather Station Sugar north of Japan, beginning the longest peacetime voyage for a local vessel. On station about 21 days, then Yokosuka three weeks, returning by March 1, with Attu en route. Comdr. G A Knudsen commands a crew of about 120 and five meteorologists aboard. Sugar, one of three Pacific weather stations, transmits data to mariners and the U S Weather Bureau. the Navy operates similar stations near Nippon and in the South Pacific. Station duty is among the roughest and most hazardous Coast Guard work, endured in all weather.
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G. A. Knudsen
Long Beach
U. S. Weather Bureau
San Francisco
Nippon
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U. S. Navy
Los Angeles Chief Parker to Speak at Long Beach Propeller Club
Los Angeles Chief William H. Parker will be the featured speaker at the Port of Long Beach Propeller Club meeting at the Lafayette Hotel next Friday. Delegates will report on the Baltimore national convention, with local attendees including President T. G. Maddux Ralph Chandler Ralph D. Sweeney and Rear Adm. Frank D. Higbee USCGR.
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Los Angeles
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Port of Long Beach
Propeller Club
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Parker
California American Legion 1
Baltimore
T. G. Maddux
Ralph Chandler
Ralph D. Sweeney
Frank D. Higbee
USCGR
Harbor War Shipbuilding Boom Marked by Cape Mendocino Launch
On Tuesday the 10th anniversary of Long Beach Harbor wartime ship output, the 417‑foot Cape Mendocino slid from Craig Shipbuilding yards amid a crowd. Built for Consolidated Steel, it typified a surge that produced nearly 600 large vessels, with daily launches as war production grew across three yards.
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Los Angeles Harbor
Cape Mendocino
Craig Shipbuilding Co
Craig Yard
Consolidated Steel Corp
Docker Security Screening Set to Start Here Dec 1
The Coast Guard announced a tentative December 1 start for screening 3000 longshoremen at the Long Beach Los Angeles harbor. Workers will be photographed, fingerprinted, and vetted for access to the wharf with ID cards withheld for those posing security risks.
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Long Beach
Los Angeles Harbor
Coast Guard
11Th District Coast Guard
Jeter
Ex Navy Officer Joins A P L as Operations VP
George T. Paine, a former Navy captain who commanded the Naval Shipyard in Long Beach, has been appointed vice president for operations at American President Lines. The Warwick FR native and Brown Harvard MIT alumnus has held senior shipyard and naval construction posts and served at Terminal Island from 1945 to 1947.
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Naval Shipyard
Long Beach
Lines
George Killion
A. PL
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Warwick
FR. J. Paine
Brown University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bethlehem Yards
San Francisco
Navy
Norfolk Navy Yard
Boston Yard
Terminal Island
Feverish Death Claims Six Of Eight On Panamanian Colony
Captn W A Brown reports a small party of eight from Long Beach sailed on the Aster to establish an agricultural colony on a river delta island in Panama. Malaria killed six of the eight, leaving the last survivors hospitalized in David. The venture, organized by a concession owner, was shrouded in secrecy and ended in tragedy abroad.
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Long Beach
W. A. Brown
Unoba
Harbor Boat Building Co
Fish
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David
Brown
California
Tropics
Union Oil Co
Ship Cargo of Scrap In From Europe
A 9800 ton shipment of scrap from the Canadian Liberty freighter Lake Babine arrived at Long Beach. It is among the largest shipments since the battlefield cleanup began and the first landed here from Europe, with much of the cargo consisting of old railroad wreckage from Amsterdam.
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Long Beach
Europe
Pacific
Amsterdam
Holland
Cary,go
Tonnage Handled by Harbor Rises During October
The Harbor Department of Long Beach reports October cargo totaled 486 917 tons, up from 474 628 in September. Principal bulk items include lumber steel newsprint petroleum products carbon coke scrap metal cotton and copra.
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