Gertrude Turner and another woman on yacht Aafje, [1937?]

Item Overview

Title

Gertrude Turner and another woman on yacht Aafje, [1937?]

Photographer

Finley, Howard, b. 1899 or 1900

Date Created

[1937?]

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Related to Los Angeles Times article, January 2, 1938, Yacht Pair Face Charge, Mad Pirate’s Crew Members to Be Arraigned Tomorrow. The closing chapters of the mad piracy voyage of the yacht Aafje which cost the life of Dwight L. Faulding, Santa Barbara hotel man, in a murder by Jack Morgan, later slain by members of his crew, are scheduled to be written next week in Federal court. … [Robert] Horne and [George] Spernak threw Morgan to the sharks as a defense measure to save their own lives and those of three women and a child aboard the ill-fated schooner. …
Gertrude Turner, in turtleneck and slacks, seated at helm of yacht, with another woman, in coat, seated at right, with stern of yacht in background
Howard Finley was a Los Angeles Times staff photographer.
This photograph, cropped to show only Gertrude Turner, appears with Los Angeles Times article, December 30, 1937, Faulding’s Craft, the Aafje, and His Fiancee

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10253 12/31/37 Howard Finley
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Gertrude Turner, said to have been the fiancee of Faulding, shown as she sat at the wheel of the Aafje. She is reported one of the members of the party on the craft. Photos courtesy of H.G. Wilson Company, Yacht and Ship Brokers

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Transportation
People

Names

Turner, Gertrude, b. ca. 1907
Aafje (Schooner yacht)
Faulding, Dwight, 1888-1937

Resource type

still image