Lets go way back, seiner Victoria at Embarcadero in February 67. Cant tell you much about this one , i wasn’t born yet. [email protected]
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Lets go way back, seiner Victoria at Embarcadero in February 67. Cant tell you much about this one , i wasn’t born yet. [email protected]
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Jimmy, She was built at Campbells in 1937. Later during the war she became the YP 350. After that name was changed to the Queen Victoria then the Sun Victoria. Nice pic!!
was that the boat on dry dock over by TARANTINO'S restaurant in PL
Dry-Dock, Tarantino's, in the Shelter Island Yacht Basin ?
All I know is in the early 1990's the "Victoria" still named as such, was abandoned & partially sunk in about 15 feet of water at the A-8 "free" anchorage, south of the Coronado bridge & about 200 yards west of 24th Sreet marine terminal. This area was a hugh graveyard for all sorts of vessels. The San Diego Unified Port District, my old employeer, spent about 75K to have it raised & towed to Knight & Carver, near the National City shoreline, to be "recycled" which happened around 1994.
It used to be moored in the embarcadero not to far from Anthony's in the mid-80's. It was a distinct, old "rustic seiner" that used to have a huge palm tree, yes palm tree on the aft deck, that could be seen from cars going down Harbor Drive. Somebody might still remember that.
When it sank, it was already stripped of most of it's rigging & machinery.
Clyde Williams
S.D. Harbor Police, Ret.
The Victoria spent a good part of the 1970's tied at Harbor Boat in Point Loma (owned I think by Sebastian "Seabass" Maguri (sp?)) . The plan was conversion to crab tender. I do remember they changed the look of the boat by enclosing the bridge. At one point it was hauled out at Harbor Boat and collapsed the old "ways" (cradle railway system). A San Diego barge-crane could not lift it and one had to be brought down from San Pedro. After the ways repair it was hauled successfully. However, I don't believe it ever became a crab tender. It likely left Harbor Boat when the yard closed in the early 80s and tied at the embarcadero for a while. Eventually, it did find its way to the south bay grave yard. JT
I think I may have recently bought a pocket watch that may have come from the Victoria (YP-350).It is a navigation watch that is in a wooden box with a sight window.On the bottom of the box the name M.Monies is carved Matthew Monies was the original owner of the Victoria in 1937.These watches were made for U.S. Navy PT boats and not very many of them were made.The watch was made in 1928 and could of possibly been given to Matthew by a U.S. Navy captain after WW-11 for letting them use the Victoria.