Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, November 28, 1937, "A Day With the Sea Scouts. Sea Scouts of the Crescent Bay Council, Santa Monica, are shown on this page learning navigation and sea ways aboard their ship Pinta, which they reconstructed themselves from an old Navy whaleboat. They are among the 2000 Southland Sea Scouts who now are participating with their fellow Sea Scouts of California, Utah, Nevada and Arizona in the annual regional rendezvous at Balboa." (Times photos by E.J. Spencer) Sea Scouts Don Crews and Bob Volse saluting Bud Weber as he climbs ladder, other Sea Scouts standing, all in uniform, with ship deck and life ring reading S.S.S. Pinta at left, ocean in background Text from newspaper caption: “SIDE BOYS FOR AN OFFICER.” Mate Bud Weber comes aboard as Don Crews and Bob Volse stand at attention. The others, left to right, are: Ralph Tingenberg, Paul Doose, Larry Harrod and Bill Boyd. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 12198 4/21/38 Sea Scouts (opens[?])
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0304 0304 ark:/21198/zz002d9jm4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Transportation Government Balboa (Newport Beach, Calif.) Harrod, Lawrence Lee, 1920-1981 Volse, Bob, b. ca. 1920 Weber, Bud Pinta (Sea Scout Ship) Tingenberg, Ralph, b. ca. 1920 Boyd, Bill, b. ca. 1920 Doose, Paul Charles, 1919-1998 Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) Crews, Don, b. ca. 1920
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