HERMOSA MAKES RECORD / LOSES IT TO GLENN MAYNE – “The old passenger steamer ‘HERMOSA’, recently converted by WILLIAM MAGGIO (yes, that same “Maggio” family of which Baseball legend Joe de Maggio came from!) of San Pedro into a tuna fishing boat, is making an enviable record in Southern California and Mexican waters. During the last weeks of 1928, she made three LONG-DISTANCE fishing trips, which totaled about 10,000 miles, without any adjustment of her main OR auxiliary engine. The latter, a 45-h.p. Fairbanks-Morse diesel, made one 600-hour run and another 800 hours; without stopping. This makes it possible to keep seawater constantly circulating in the bank tanks. As a result, the fish not only are kept alive; but some of them were brought back to port considerably increased in size… (*The Point Here: These voyages showed that the ‘Hermosa’ could travel longer distances, and make the total cost [both FUEL & OIL] at only *6¢ per mile*!)…, *AND* Not long afterward… — “Editorial Note: Since the above was written, the ‘Hermosa’ has lost her position as the largest tuna boat on the Pacific Coast. The ‘GLENN MAYNE’ has come out from the East Coast to fish out of SAN DIEGO, and this vessel (formerly the deepsea tug ‘Endeavor’) is 160’ long, 31’ beam, and 12’ loaded draft, with a capacity of 350 tons of iced fish and 160 tons of live bait and water.” — *Editorial Note: Clearly, these working examples of larger vessels successfully, and *economically*, carrying larger loads of tuna did not go unnoticed by the PA ‘Power Brokers’ in the local tuna fishing fleet. A “new direction” would be right around the corner.
(*Source: 1929 Pacific Marine Review [annual] magazine – April ed. – Pg. 157)