Aggi

Aggi sank on May 4, 1915 at Santa Rosa Island with a garco of beans and barley.

Male California Sheephead at the wreck of the Aggi, Santa Rosa Island
Photo by Robert Schwemmer

Aggi (#102136) (1894-1915), 265-foot Scottish-built three-masted steel-hulled barkentine launched in 1894 as Aspice. The vessel had several owners during her first decade, and by 1909 she was under Norwegian ownership and named Aggie Norge. On May 3, 1915 she was under tow by the Edgar Vance, bound for Sweden from San Francisco, with a cargo of 600 tons of beans and 2500 tons of barley. Just out of San Francisco, the vessels encountered a storm, and the Edgar Vance released Aggi. In the next few days, Aggi’s cargo shifted, and on May 4, the storm tossed her on the shore off Santa Rosa Island. Captain Ira Eaton rescued the crew and brought them to Santa Barbara, while Aggi Captain Anskar Olsen remained aboard with his first mate. Santa Barbara’s Flying A Film Company was taken to the wreck site by Captain Rosaline Vasquez aboard Otter to film the shipwreck. Aggi was sold to the Universal Film Company, who in turn sold her salvage rights to the Newmark Grain Company of Los Angeles. Today the wreck of the Aggi remains scattered about Talcott Shoals.

In 1967, one of her two large anchors was salvaged by Santa Barbara mariner, Glenn Miller, and donated the the Santa Barbara Historical Society where it is on display outside.

» Howorth, Peter Treasures of the deep: the Aggi, the Goldenhorn, the Crown of England... Santa Barbara Magazine 12(2):16-24 April-May, 1986

In the News~

May 2, 1915 [LAT]: “San Francisco. The Norwegian ship Aggi is supposed to be in trouble. The Aggi left here Thursday in tow of the steamer Edgar H. Vance. Yesterday the hawser broke, and the Aggi has been adrift. No word has come from her. The Edgar H. Vance reported late today that she was 110 miles west of Punta Arena, returning to port. She notified all shipping to keep a watch for the Aggi.”

May 4, 1915 [SBMP]: “Ship Aggi is fast on shoals off Santa Rosa Island. Leaving San Francisco last Thursday, craft is caught in storm and breaking from tow is cast adrift. Crew of twenty men is safe, but ship is pounding and cargo will be total loss unless help comes quickly. The full-rigged ship Aggi, 1575 tons, which has been reported missing several days, went on Talcott Shoal at the west end of Santa Rosa Island yesterday afternoon… For several days the Aggi has been floundering about, but the wind remained very strong. It was impossible to get a piece of canvas aloft. Attempts proved futile, as the gale would tear each piece to shreds…”

May 5, 1915 [LAT]: “Santa Barbara. Facing a driving rain and in the teeth of a stiff gale, the powerboat Sea Wolf, Captain Ira Eaton, left this afternoon for Santa Rosa Island, carrying a dispatcher to the freighter Aggi, which is reported aground on the west end of the island. ‘We had the maddest fight to keep afloat a ship ever experienced,’ said pilot H. Anderson of San Francisco, who was landed here during the early morning hours. ‘Friday night the Aggi and the steamer Edgar Vance ran into a hurricane. The Edgar Vance had a line to the Aggi and was towing her. The two vessels were tossed about like mere corks, and the seas were breaking over both vessels. We tried lashing the two together, and the seas poured from one to the other…’”

May 5, 1915 [SBMP]: “No word was received yesterday in regard to the condition of the Aggi, which went on Talcott Shoal at the west end of Santa Rosa. Captain Ira Eaton, who brought news to the mainland, left yesterday afternoon for the scene of the wreck and will probably not be back until something has been determined as to the fate of the vessel. It is very probable that tugs and lighters arrived on the scene yesterday from San Pedro and the next news as to actual conditions may be received from the southern port.”

May 6, 1915 [SBMP]: “Aggi and cargo are total loss. Captain Olsen remains on board until ship breaks in two. Crew is in Santa Barbara awaiting transportation north. After a terrible pounding on the rocks at Talcott’s Reef, two miles off the northwestern corner of Santa Rosa Island, since last Monday afternoon, when she was blown, helpless, onto the shoal, the full-rigged Norwegian ship Aggi broke in two last Tuesday night, there being aboard the doomed craft at the time her captain, A. Olsen, Scotty Cunningham of the Sea Wolf’s crew, and Sol Gerow of Santa Barbara. When the final disaster in the rough history of the ship came, these men took to a small boat and made for the island shore. This news was brought to the mainland yesterday noon by Captain Ira K. Eaton, who was the first to report the perilous fate of the Aggi, last Monday night, when he returned in his powerboat, the Sea Wolf, and gave The Morning Press the information regarding the vessel’s woeful mishap. Since that time Captain Eaton has made several trips to the scene of the wreck, from which he brought members of the Aggi’s crew to the mainland last Tuesday. Captain Olsen came over in the Sea Wolf yesterday. He had stayed with his ship as long as there was any ship to stay with, and then had bidden her a sad, almost heartbroken, farewell because there was nothing else to do. The Aggi left San Francisco on Thursday of last week, bound to a Swedish port with a cargo consisting of 2500 tons of barley and 600 tons of beans. She was in tow of the steamer Edgar Vance, expecting to be towed down the coast and through the Panama Canal, and then proceed under sail to her port destination… The plight of the Aggi was first discovered by Captain Eaton, who had lost a painter and was looking for it off Santa Rosa Island, when he saw a distress signal flying from the island…”

May 6, 1915 [LAT]: “Lashed by mad seas and hammered against the rocks of Talcott Reef, the Norwegian ship Aggi Norge went to pieces this morning.

May 7, 1915 [SBMP]: “Aggi’s cargo may be saved. Captain Ira K. Eaton is working hard at doomed vessel. Forward hold believed to contain 3000 sacks of grain. Captain Curtis of San Francisco, who came down to this city last Tuesday as representative of the underwriters interested in the wreck of the ship Aggi, that lies foundered on Talcott’s Shoal off Santa Rosa Island, returned home yesterday morning, after an inspection of the wreck the day before. While here Captain Curtis, acting for his principals, put the wreck of the Aggi into the hands of Captain Ira K. Eaton for salvage, and E. P. Stevens represents Captain Eaton in the handling of the business in Santa Barbara. At 3:30 yesterday afternoon, Captain Eaton returned from a visit to the wreck, to which he had started last Wednesday at midnight, accompanied by Captain George W. Gourley, two young men from the State Normal School student body, who went along just for the purpose of seeing the wreck, and his regular crew. The Captain brought back from the wreck nine tons of barley, fourteen bolts of canvas, a few sails, the ship’s compass, a lot of tools, and a few miscellaneous articles, all of which had been taken from the stranded vessel and transferred to the Sea Wolf with great difficulty, as the wind was blowing a gale, although at the time it was very calm on the mainland. Captain Eaton reported that he found the Aggi a complete wreck. Since he saw her on the preceding day, the main mast had been swept away, but the hull was resting solidly on the reef, her back broken in two.”

May 7, 1915 [SBMP]: “Captain Eaton of the Sea Wolf having made arrangements to take six or eight excursion parties to the islands within the next ten days, and his boat now being engaged in the salvage of the cargo of the wrecked Aggi off the coast of Santa Rosa Island. He has transferred his excursion business for the present to the Otter, recently arrived from San Pedro.”

May 8, 1915 [SBMP]: “Captain Ira K. Eaton returned from Talcott’s Reef in the Sea Wolf yesterday afternoon with another load of barley taken from the wreck of the Aggi. He left at 6 o’clock last evening for another load of the grain, accompanied by Allan Watt and Captain Charles Davis, of the Universal Film Company of Los Angeles, who went for the purpose of getting some photographs of the wreck.”

May 8, 1915 [LAT]: “The salvagers attacked the Aggi Norge today, removing eighty-two tons of her cargo. Captain Eaton estimates that no more than 300 tons can be saved, as the balance is thoroughly water soaked. Several ships of light draft are being used in taking away the cargo. The rigging and other equipment will not be molested until the last pound of wheat and beans is removed from the hold. The vessel lies in twenty feet of water, now practically buried hull-deep in the sand. Constant rocking back and forth under the action of the surf has burrowed the vessel into the shoal sands, where she is being held almost stationary. This is tending to hold her intact…”

May 9, 1915 [SBMP]: “More salvage in. Yesterday the power schooner Panama of Long Beach, engaged by Captain Eaton to help save the barley cargo of the wrecked Aggi, came over with its first load, and went back for another. Captain Eaton also came in with the Sea Wolf loaded down to the guards with the grain, and about as soon as it was landed, he too returned to the wreck to repeat the operation.”

May 9, 1915 [SBMP]: “Otter busy. Yesterday morning the powerboat Otter, Captain Vasquez, went to Santa Cruz Island with a party of Potter Hotel guests. There were fifteen passengers, and they were all delighted with the island beauties and with a visit to the wreck of the Aggi off the shore of Santa Rosa Island...”

May 10, 1915 [LAT]: “Captain A. Olsen and twenty members of the crew of the Norwegian ship Aggi, which went ashore on Santa Rosa Island off Santa Barbara last Monday, arrived in this city on the steamer Santa Clara today. Captain Olsen reports that the ship will be a total loss, as will the cargo, with the exception of a small amount of barley stored in the forward hatch.”

May 11, 1915 [SBMP]: Barley salvage. The Sea Wolf and Panama brought eight and twenty-five tons of barley, respectively, from the wreck of the ship Aggi last Sunday, and about the same amount yesterday. This nearly used up all the dry barley on the wrecked vessel, and work will begin today in handling the grain that has been damaged by the water.”

May 12, 1915 [SBMP]: “The Sea Wolf and Panama came in from the wreck of the Aggi yesterday with another load each of the barley from the ruined hulk. This makes 1200 sacks, or about 60 tons, that the two boats have rescued from the wreck, and it about completes the salvage of the dry barley in the Aggi’s cargo. Work will now commence on the removal of the damaged grain, which can be sold only for chicken food, for which it will do very well after being dried out. The wreck of the Aggi is said to be fast breaking up. During the past few days the masts have all been swept away, and soon the fragments of the ship will be scattered far and wide over the watery wastes.”

May 12, 1915 [SBDNI]: “Camping parties for Santa Cruz Island planned. Otter will carry first crowd of season tomorrow from Carpinteria… Tomorrow afternoon the Otter will carry a party of Cate School, Carpinteria, pupils and teachers, to Pelican Bay… A side trip to Seal Rocks, Painted Cave and the Aggi wreck will be made …”

May 13, 1915 [SBMP]: “After wet barley. Continuing in her work of helping in the salvage of the grain on the wrecked ship Aggi, fast on Talcott’s Shoal, the power schooner Panama left again for the wreck yesterday afternoon to get another load. Captain Eaton will arrive today with another load in the Sea Wolf. All the barley now left on the Aggi is wet, but it is said to make good chicken feed after being dried out, and although it must be sold at a low price, it is said to be well worth saving under the present plans employed.”

May 13, 1915 [SBMP]: “The powerboat Otter will be a busy craft for the latter part of this week… Friday morning a party of about twenty-five students of the State Normal School will go over to Fry’s Harbor on the Otter, and will have the use of the boat for that day and the next for cruises around the island and the wreck of the Aggi, off the northwest coast of Santa Rosa Island...”

May 14, 1915 [SBMP]: “Universal buys Aggi. The Norwegian ship Aggi that recently was driven into a gale onto Talcott Shoal, off the Santa Rosa Island shore, has been bought for motion picture purposes. By negotiations concluded last Wednesday night by Captain Charles E. Davis, representing the Universal Film Company of Universal City near Hollywood, and the San Francisco board of marine underwriters, the picture company purchased the wreck and will utilize it for a series of photoplays.”

May 18, 1915 [SBMP]: “Wreck of the Aggi will soon be dream. Universal must hurry if it wants to photograph the real thing. Henry McRea, D. M. Meaney and Allen Watt of the Universal Motion Picture concern’s company that is working in the photoplays that are to be made with the wreck of the Aggi as a setting, arrived at the Arlington Hotel from Los Angeles last Sunday and went over to the Universal camp on Santa Rosa Island shore yesterday afternoon by the powerboat Panama to get plans organized for active work. Forty members of the company arrived at the island camp last Saturday from San Pedro on the Santa Rosa Island company’s powerboat, the Vaquero. The Panama will be stationed at the island as long as the company remains there. The camp is distant about six miles from the wreck, and it is in one of the few good spots for camping this part of the island supplies. The Panama will transport the actors to and from the wreck, besides making trips to the mainland for provisions and mail for the temporary population of the island. According to reports received yesterday by parties coming in from the wreck, the ‘stage property’ that the picture concern has bought will not last long. It is said that, under the terrific winds that have been blowing at Talcott’s Shoal the past few days, the hulk is settling, and only the foreword part of the deck is now above water. As Scotty Cunningham, returning from the scene yesterday, expressed it: ‘They’ll have to hurry up with their moving pictures. The wreck will soon be only a dream — and you can’t photograph a dream.’ The Universal is reported to have paid $3000 for the wreck.”

May 18, 1915 [SBMP]: “The power schooner Panama came in from the Aggi wreck yesterday morning, bringing 200 sacks of wet barley, an anchor saved from the wreck and a lot of brass work and other junk. This load was called the last to be taken from the wreck, which is reported fast breaking up. All the barley now left in the hulk is said to be under water, and there is nothing else aboard worth saving that can be got at.”

May 23, 1915 [SBMP]: “Wreck of the Aggi is elusive to camera. Universal Players here, however, have been enjoying island life. Word received from the Universal Motion Picture Company’s camp on Santa Rosa Island yesterday was to the effect that the sixty of the company’s actors there for the purpose of using the wreck of the ship Aggi in photoplays had not as yet been able to do any work on or around the wreck, on account of the rough water in the vicinity of Talcott’s Shoal, on which the battered hulk lies. The company has done some work on the island shore, however, covering the scenes depicting the landing of the supposed victims of the wreck, and the results are thought to have been satisfactory as to these features. The actors in camp are said to be having a delightful experience in their island picnic, and to be enjoying the unusual benefit of island camp life under full pay. General manager George A, Magie of the Universal Company, who was here with the company to direct operations in the work in hand, went back to Universal City yesterday to be on hand for the big annual barbecue of the concern, to be given today at Universal City, instead of at Eddie Maier’s ranch, where it has been held for the past three years. In this affair Elks will loom large, as is usual, and a number of members of the Santa Barbara lodge will go down to participate in the Universal joy today.”

May 23, 1915 [SBMP]: “Wreck of the Aggi reported sold. Newmarks of Los Angeles is said to have relieved Universal. It was reported yesterday that the Newmark Grain Company of Los Angeles had purchased from Universal Motion Picture Company the wreck of the ship Aggi that lies on Talcott’s Shoal off Santa Rosa Island, and that the buyer will go ahead at once in the salvaging of the wreck, the picture concern retaining the picture rights of the property. Rumor has it that the price paid was the same that the Universal Company paid the underwriters for the remains of the Aggi — $1000. This deal is said to have been consummated by H. E. and H. S. Woolner, father and son, interested to the Newmark Company, and general manager Magie of the Universal Company, all of whom were on the island during the past week. The opinion prevails among people who have seen the wreck that the Universal Company did a good stroke of business in unloading this very questionable piece of property at the full price paid for it, unless the cargo of the vessel should prove to include something more valuable than the soaked barley that it is supposed to hold as its only feature of value, but probably the buyers know what they are about.”

May 25, 1915 [SBMP]: “The Universal Players who had been at Santa Rosa Island in hope of making use of the Aggi wreck for pictures, have returned to the mainland. The sea was so rough that nothing could be done. The Aggi is now in such condition that she is hopeless for any purpose and there will be no more salvage. The news was received that Hans Thormadsen, the first mate, became insane in Chicago on his way home to Norway. This is attributed to his severe experiences while this ship was battered by the storm.”

May 25, 1915 [LAT]: “Bursting beans and barley are proving more destructive than ocean storms in reducing the Aggi Norge, Norwegian steamer aground on the west end of Santa Rosa Island. The salvage crew has saved 700 sacks of barley and beans. All the remainder of the cargo was water-soaked. The water started the cargo to swell, and now the sides of the boat and the deck are shattered. Crunching timbers tell of the peculiarly explosive work of the water-soaked cargo. The Aggi and her cargo have been sold by the underwriters to the Universal Film Company, which is planning a series of thrilling films about the wreck, and expects to secure the presence of a submarine to heighten the effect.”

June 5, 1915 [SBMP]: “Aggi about gone. Reports from the wreck of the ship Aggi, foundered on Talcott’s Reef, are to the effect that the masts are all gone, and nothing of the vessel shows above water excepting the bow.”

June 8, 1915 [SBDNI]: “A fog horn, which the captain contemplates selling either to a fish dealer, or using it to call back the dogs after a wild boar hunt on Santa Cruz Island, was brought back today by Captain Ira K. Eaton, from the wrecked schooner Aggi, which has gone to pieces on Talcott Shoal, at the west end of Santa Rosa Island. The noise-maker produces a sound which makes a Klaxon sound like a mouse squeak in comparison. It is operated by turning a crank like a hand-organ, and can be heard about two miles away on a still day, so that it is too noisy for domestic use. The captain also brought over a huge three sheaf block from the wreck.”

May 12, 1916 [SBMP]: “Captain Ira Eaton goes to San Miguel Island in the Sea Wolf this morning to take Mr. Thatcher, representing the board of underwriters of San Francisco Board of Trade, to investigate certain phases of the wreck of the Norwegian steamer Aggi, which went to pieces on a reef off Santa Rosa Island about a year ago. The Sea Wolf has been chartered for four days for this expedition.”

March 1967 [Pacific Underwater News]: “The Aggie of Santa Rosa's Talcott Shoals. By Glenn Miller. Captain, Motor Vessel Emerald. To me there is nothing more rewarding and fun than snooping around a boat, particularly if it's sunk, and especially if it's an old one. A feeling that I believe is shared by most divers whether sport divers or old time professional hard hat types. The wreck I'm going to tell about is one of the finest classical wrecks of an old time ship that hasn't been picked to pieces (as of this writing I was the only one who knew where it was and how to relocated it again) on the California coast. As with most wrecks it was by pure accident. I had a group of divers out on a lobster dive on those fabulous lobster reefs known as Talcott Shoals off the northwest end of Santa Rosa Island. The second I dropped the pick, four or five divers hit the water so fast that I didn't know which hit bottom first, the divers or the anchor. Anyway, about a minute after they went in they were back with tales of wreckage strewn (literally) all over the bottom. It seems I'd anchored right on top of an old uncharted wreck. I couldn't get my gear on fast enough, and after ripping one leg, cursing the zipper and myself for not spraying it with silicone, forgetting my weight belt, (you can probably already tell that wrecks don't stoke me much), I got down on it. I couldn't believe the size of it. It stretched from a spot about ten feet deep down to sixty feet. Being an iron vessel there was quite a bit left, though in disreparable shape. There were portholes, brass piping, masts, winches, two gigantic anchors, (still workable) the larger of which was over twelve feet long with a square shank a foot across the flats. We estimated it to weigh around nine thousand pounds. After burning two bottles diving on it, one thing bothered me a little, there wasn't an engine room. Little did I realize that she was a four masted barque over 320 feet long, that had hit this reef some fifty-two years ago. After I got back to Santa Barbara I did some research on it and found that she was the Aggie out of Australia, bound for San Pedro with a load of wheat when she met her untimely end in 1915. After a while the wind came up and we had to get out of there, and with the wind came the fog as it does so often around Santa Rosa and San Miguel Islands. I'd been having such a ball exploring the wreck that I hadn't bothered taking any landmarks so I could come back to it, and now with the fog rolling in it was too late. You have to bear in mind that this reef is a mile and a half off Santa Rosa Island. It took me six weeks to find that wreck again. When I relocated it again I used a sextant, taking horizontal bearings. I knew where it was on the chart because it shows that 10 foot place that did her in, and I knew that was where the wreck was because my depth gauge showed about 10 feet on part of the wreck. To use a sextant you of course have to have a sextant, and also a three-legged protractor. Stop the boar dead in the water and take your shots fast, then plot yourself in on a chart. If you do it right, it's as accurate a fix as you can get with a surveyor's transit, but I won't go into details here as the average diver doesn't own a sextant. Well, that day we took six fixes, getting closer each time, until I told Dick Anderson, my diving cohort, that the wreck was about a hundred yards straight in from us, and do you know it was, much to the amazement of Dick. We were on top of it again. If you can figure out the instructions under the chart you can dive into the past on an honest to God square rigged ship wreck. Incidentally, this area has the best lobster diving that I know of. Last trip out, there were twenty divers of which I'd say only half were experienced, who caught 136 bugs with an average weight of 5-1/2 pounds.”

1967 [Pacific Underwater News]: “Mystery of the Missing Anchor & A Favorite Letter. Remember our guide to the wreck of the Aggie on Santa Rosa Island's Talcott Shoals that we published in March, 1967, and remember the giant anchor mentioned in the article? We even ran a picture of our Wreck Editor, Glen Miller posed with his goodie bag beside it. Well, in the last three weeks we have had half a dozen calls from mystified divers who have visited the wreck and can't find the anchor. The really mystified ones are those who have seen the anchor on previous dives, but on visiting the Aggie in the last few weeks have found the anchor gone.I gave Glen Miller a call, and just as I had suspected, the incurable "wreck picker" had taken a group of diving instructors and salvaged it. It now rests at the Santa Barbara Historical Society to whom they donated it. A few of the divers included Dr. Glenn Egstrom, Steve Mitakes, and Jed Gardner of UCLA. Also aboard were Tommie Thompson of the U/S. Divers Company, Otto Gasser of Cal in Poly Pomona, Calif., Jim Joiner of the Underwater Technology Institute in North Hollywood and well-known underwater photographer Dick Anderson. This was one of the largest if not the largest anchors ever salvaged on the Pacific Coast. The divers used two 5-foot diameter steel mooring buoys. These buoys already have one hole, into which they could feed air, but they drilled another so that the air might more rapidly escape when sinking them. They sank these along side the anchor. After lashing the buoys to the anchor they plugged the top holes in the buoys and fed air into the bottom hole using a set of twin 72's [scuba tanks]. Once on the surface it too the Emerald eight hours to tow the big anchor back to Santa Barbara.”

February 1968 [Pacific Underwater News]: “Against Wreck Picking. I was sorry to read in your "Blow an' Go" column last issue that Glenn Miller and a group of "instructors" had removed the big anchor from the wreck of the Aggie at San Miguel Island [Rosa]. Does Captain Miller really believe that the land lubbers visiting the Santa Barbara Historical Society will appreciate the big anchor as much as skin divers did visiting it in 40 feet of water? As far as I'm concerned (and I believe there are other divers like me) there has just been one more bit of interesting underwater environment and wreck lore that will no longer be enjoyed by Pacific Coast divers. Frankly, we believe that the wrecks should be left as they are for all to enjoy. We agree with you, Hank [Holcomb], when you referred to Captain Glenn Miller as an "incurable wreck picker," only we probably don't mean it as an affectionate term as you probably did. Because we think the "Wreck Pickers" should stay out of the water. You won't print this letter because Glenn Miller writes a column for Underwater News, but at lweast I got it off my chest. Ted Beckman, San Francisco”

May 1968 [Pacific Underwater News]: “About that anchor from the Aggie. I read with much interest Mr. Ted Beckman's letter in your last Letters to the Editor Department. (March '68) about his being unhappy that a group of divers and myself salvaged the anchor of the Bark Aggie and gave it to the Santa Barbara Historical Society. I believe that the historical wrecks like the Winfield Scott for instance should be dove on and admired without desecrating them so that other divers in the future may enjoy diving into into a little bit of history. You'd be amazed at the number of divers that I have to tell not to break up the paddlewheels of the Scott. But the anchor of the Aggie — that my friend, is a different story. In the first place it was 35 miles from the mainland, and a mile and a half at sea from the nearest island. In the second place, it was I who originally found the wreck of the Aggie completely by accident. I might also add, most of the divers who have been up there diving on it have gone with me, and then sometimes they don't get to dive on it because a lot of the time even I can't get on the wreck for various and sundry reasons, i.e. fog securing my landmarks, wind making the sea too rough, a big ground swell which will crest and break right over the wreck. Third, it's amazing no matter how well you explain to a bunch of divers about where the anchor was located how many of them will miss it. Fourth, this ship had two anchors. I only salvaged one. I left the other one there to be enjoyed by the fish and the very few divers that might ever see it. Fifth, there was another person who found out where it was and was going to get it and sell it to a restaurant out of town. At least I didn't make a buck on it, in fact it cost me a hell of a lot in time, fuel, etc. The Emerald doesn't run on love alone; it burns diesel fuel & at the going rate of twelve gallons an hour. Sixth, I believe in a majority rules society, and I know that in one day 500 times the amount of what you called "landlubbers" enjoyed seeing that anchor than all the divers will in the next 50 years. To sum up this lengthly epistle, I'm not mad at Mr. Beckman for being misinformed, but I do not think he is getting all nervous and upset over something that he doesn't know any thing about. I'd hate to see him get ulcers over an anchor. Glenn Miller, Skipper, Motor Boat Emerald”