❖ NORTH TO ALASKA 70 SUMMERS AGO ❖

SEA TRIALS WITH A SEINER DESIGNED BY ED MONK, BUILT BY GRANDY BOAT COMPANY, AND READY FOR WORK IN THE FAR NORTH

LIBBY 21
"One of the speediest of the 1949 crop of new fishing
vessels built in Seattle was the Libby 21 from the drafting
board of designer Mr. Ed Monk of Seattle.
She was constructed by the Grandy Boat Co yard on
Lake Union for the Alaska salmon department of
Libby, McNeil & Libby. She was equipped with a
140-HP engine and logged 11-knots. The 40' purse seiner
was shipped on the deck of a freighter to the cannery
at Mosher Bay, AK."
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photo by Ray Krantz from his photo-boat STARDUST
on Lake Washington, Seattle, WA.
From the archives of the Saltwater People Historical Society©
Photo date of 3 June 1949.

By the 1940s Libby, McNeil & Libby was one of the largest producers of salmon canning operations in the US. On average it produced 700,000 cases of canned salmon annually. Their canneries were at Egegik, Ekuk, Libbyville, Koggiung, Egushik, Nushagak, Kenai, Yakutat, and Ketchikan.