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Portobello…

Beautiful shot of the Portobello, docked at Campbell’s shipyard . At the time i think it was the biggest Seiner that Campbell’s built along with a couple others like it. Notice all the other boats in the back ground . busy time at Campbell’s.. sdtunaboats @cox.net

8 Replies to “Portobello…”

  1. i think it was sister ships to the GRANADA (ARKOS II) and CHIRIQUI I (NAIR). all were built in late '74 and early '75.
    PORTOBELLO (ARKOS I)

  2. Those boats were all Campbell boats and i believe were the same company boats, but the Portobello was bigger , i think it was sister ships to the Elizabeth CJ and the Zapata Discoverer. I could be wrong .

  3. Hi Jimmy:

    I was in the first crew of the Granada, she was skippered by John Gois of San Diego. He is still around and owns a company named Marine industrial Supply in Spring Valley. their web site is http://www.ringsaroundtheworld.com/. His son Brian runs a sport fishing operation out of Point Loma. All the boats mentioned above were the same size (1100 tons)as I recall.

    I worked for Campbell Marine as a marine electrician when I was hired by their port manager Ray Rosa to be a technican for the electrical and electronic systems on Granada. Granada and Portobello were a couple of the first boats in the San Diego fleet to have helicopters onboard. We had some rather unique electronic equipment for the time onboard for the helicopters. I also did work on the other boats as well.

    Granada, Portobello, Chirqui I were all owned by Jim DaSilva. The name of the company was Pasquera Industries, Balboa, RP. The above named boats were all Panamaian flagged boats. They had another boat as well but it was smaller, 900 tons comes to mind. The name of that boat was the "King Oscar". DaSilva owned King Oscar sardines at the time.

    You now know as much as my 66 year old memory can muster.

    Regards, Gary Iles, Cypress, TX

  4. Thanks Gary, good information. They caught some fish .. Do you have any pictures of boats i can always use some.

  5. THOSE WERE THE GOOD ALL TIMES. I USED TO HELP ADMINISTRATE THIS BOATS GRANADA, PORTOBELLO, CHIRIQUI, AND KING OSCAR FROM PANAMA. THE MANAGER FOR THE PANAMENIAN OPERATIONS AT THAT TIME WAS HUGO JANSSEN AND THE BOAT MAINTENANCE WAS RUNNED BY JACK MEDINA WHEN THEY CAME INTO PORT, THAT WAS AROUND THE 80'S

  6. These guys were heavy hitter's all of them. I remember the code group very well. They almost owned Taboga island themselves. Lots & lots of trans-shipping happened. We had to wait our turn more than once, while certain "tan & dark brown trimmed rigs" dumped thier loads. I'm pretty sure, but in 1978 & 79 the Sea Chase (Greg) was the top producing boat in the eastern pacific. El Rey also comes to mind.
    Anybody remember the Ivroy Coast ?

    Clyde Williams
    M/V Toro Bravo

  7. Hello, I remember the Portobello well, it was the sister ship of the M.V. Granada. I was 11 years old at the time, My father Domenic DeLuca fished with John Gois one of the Best skippers in the fleet, on the Granada. I should know in 1981, I also fished on the Granada 2
    on her first voyage and continued almost 2 years. I was very proud to fish with Captain Johnny Gois

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