Name/Title
PeerlessDescription
The "Peerless" was brought by the Bates Brothers, Fred and Ted, to Palacios from Bayou La Batre, Alabama, in 1928, to help provide shrimp for Carlton Crawford's canning plant. The canning plant had been canning figs, but the supply thereof dwindled, so Crawford decided to use his facility to process and package shrimp.
The upper registration--on the gunwale of the "Peerless"-- reflects its original registration in Alabama: A 1230. The unidentified vessel behind the "Peerless" has an Alabama registration of A 1608. (Directly above the bow of A 1608 can be seen, in the distance, the home of the Robert Margerum family in the early 1930s. The house was destroyed by Hurricane Carla in 1961, but the site was in the northwest quadrant of Main and 12th Street intersection.)
There's an unidentified boy sitting on the boat.Collection
Seafood Industry