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Description:: Captain Lars H. Weseth of the State fisheries research ship the N.B. Scofield looking through binoculars. Captain Weseth and the N.B. Scofield recently returned from a 10 week survey trip of tropical tuna grounds and tuna migration habits. The ship sailed around the Galapagos Islands conducting the most extensive surveys ever done on the Pacific.
Date:: May 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Captain Lars H. Weseth of the State fisheries research ship the N.B. Scofield looking through a sextant. Captain Weseth and the N.B. Scofield recently returned from a 10 week survey trip of tropical tuna grounds and tuna migration habits. The ship sailed around the Galapagos Islands conducting the most extensive surveys ever done on the Pacific.
Date:: May 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A ship captain looking down from his post on the S.S. Mariposa.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Tony Cornero (left), owner of a newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), with his ship's skipper, Robert C. Burdett. The Bunker Hill was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles, however, after the opening night, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:: August 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Captain Robert C. Burdett, skipper of Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:: August 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Captain Lars H. Weseth of the State fisheries research ship the N.B. Scofield looking through a sextant. Captain Weseth and the N.B. Scofield recently returned from a 10 week survey trip of tropical tuna grounds and tuna migration habits. The ship sailed around the Galapagos Islands conducting the most extensive surveys ever done on the Pacific.
Date:: May 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The Matson Line's new ocean liner Mariposa, part of the Navy's merchant marine component, was welcomed to the Los Angeles Harbor prior to her inaugural voyage to Sydney, Australia. Also present were Lieutenant-Commander James A. Crutchfield (regular Navy) and shipping executive Joseph B. Banning, Jr.
Date:: May, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “SEA CAPTAIN WILL MARRY SAME WOMAN THIRD TIME,” Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 1935: A3.
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph taken on the same day appears with the article, "Sea Fire Reveals Heroes," Los Angeles Times, 09 Oct 1923: I12.
Date:: October, 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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