Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Sea Scouts Don Crews, Larry Harrod, Ralph Tingenberg, Jack McRoberts, Bill Boyd, and Bob Volse, gathered around Mate Bud Weber, all in uniform, studying map on deck of Pinta, with ocean and shoreline with trees and buildings in background 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) Text from newspaper caption: PLOTTING THE COURSE. Left to right: Don Crews, Larry Harrod, Ralph Tingenberg, Jack McRoberts, Mate Bud Weber, Bill Boyd and Bob Volse. 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
0310 uclamss_1429_0310 ark:/21198/zz002d9jt7
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Subject
Youth Transportation Navigation Environment Balboa (Newport Beach, Calif.) Harrod, Lawrence Lee, 1920-1981 Volse, Bob, b. ca. 1920 McRoberts, Jack D., 1923-1999 Weber, Bud Pinta (Sea Scout Ship) Tingenberg, Ralph, b. ca. 1920 Boyd, Bill, b. ca. 1920 Crews, Don, b. ca. 1920 Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)
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