St. Augustine shrimp fleet

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

St. Augustine shrimp fleet

Entry/Object ID

Library.643

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Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

[2], 18 leaves; 28 cm St. Augustine shrimp fleet by Writers' Program. Writers Program (Fla.). Stories of Florida. Cover title. Reproduced from typescript. Includes a bibliography. Stories of Florida: Prepared for use in Public Schools. Federal Works Agency, John M. Carmody, Administrator. Work Project Administration, F.C. harrington, Commissioner; Florence Keer, Assistant Commissioner; Roy Schroder, State Administrator. Sponsored by Florida State Department of Public Instruction / Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Florida. At four in the morning of a cold and blustery day, I somewhat gloomily pulled on heavy shoes, dungarees, sweater, and prepared to join the shrimp fleet which was to sail with the early morning tide. The headquarters for the trawlers are on the San Sebastian River, just south of King Street, and lend a colorful, picturesque, and utilitarian touch to the Oldest City. Arriving at these docks, I was introduced to the burly Portuguese skipper, Capt. Domingo de Cruz, master of the shrimp boat Fortuna. After greeting me cordially, he stowed numerous packages in the wheel house, then invited me to come aboard. The Captain routed out two Negro deck hands asleep in the fo'c'stle and started to tinkering with the engines, leaving me to prowl the ship alone. The shrimp boat is a trawler built for its particular style of fishing; high-bowed Diesel-powered craft 50 to 75 feet from stem to stern have replaced the little gas-driven launches of earlier days and improvements in net design have been in keeping with these innovations. More than 300 such trawlers operate in coastal waters as far south as Cape Canaveral, eight months out of the year.

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Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

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Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Shrimp Fisheries -- Florida -- Saint Augustine.

Publication Details

Author

Writers' Program (Fla.), Florida. Dept. of Public Instruction. Carmody, John M. (John Michael) 1881-1962. United States Federal Works Agency. United States Work Projects Administration (Fla.).

Edition

Typescript

Publisher

Publisher not identified.

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Place of publication not identified.

Call No.

Rare Book SH 380.62 .W8