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28 April 2020

❖ SIX SAGSTAD SEINERS GOING NORTH ❖ 1962

Photo time before heading
north to Alaska
aboard the steamship Susitna that sailed
24 April 1962.
This original photograph by Ray Krantz
from the archives of the Saltwater People Log.©
Click image to enlarge.
These six boats, built by the Sagstad Marina for Pacific American Fisheries, lined up in front of the marina before going to the Alaska Steamship Company to be transported to Alaska. 
Sagstad was also building five other boats for Pacific American Fisheries and one for Andy Olsen of Cordova, AK. 
      The names of the vessels as seen above;

Moss Cape, Swedania, Balboa, Andronica, Bold Cape and Cape Elrington

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