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94-085-0002 Western Flyer
Photo Accession CV # 94-085-0002 Western Flyer, Tacoma, Washington State,
Circa 1937

Photo Accession CV # 2010-017-0001
The Baby Flyer with Ed Ricketts and John and Carol Steinbeck on the Sea of Cortez expedition 1940.

Western Flyer - Purse seiner

This is the purse seiner Skippered by Tony Berry that John and Carol Steinbeck and
Ed Ricketts made the Sea of Cortez trip from Thursday March 14 - Thursday April 18 of 1940.
The four man crew was Horace "Sparky" Enea, Hall Travis "Tex as engineer", and "Tiny" Coletto.
The Western Flyer a 76 foot purse seiner she was built in Tacoma, Washington State in 1937.

The resulting "voyage of discovery," Steinbeck and Ricketts' Sea of Cortez by Viking Press (1941) in collaboration with E.F. Ricketts and the The Log from the Sea of Cortez Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research (1951)

This photo of the Baby Flyer was probley taken around March 19 near El Pulmo Reef
The story about the Hansen Sea-Cow was in fact a Johnson Sea-Horse Stinbeck liked to change names around
We also have photos many of the fishing boats from the early feluccas, Monterey Clipper, lampara and Half Ring boats and the purse seiner that fished in Monterey Bay and the California Coast.
Early Monterey Fishing industry photo Gallery.

Ships and boats from our photo collection.

Holdings: 21,500 photos of Monterey County listed in our database. And over 81,900 historical California images in our photo archives.

Total number of images, in our database is over 33,600 total
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