. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 138 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME Jack Rickman, cook and deckhand, completed the crew. George Bonds of the Acme company handled the engine on the test cruise. Over a 6if-mile course the following day the Alhacore went out in 47 minutes and back in 44. A day later she negotiated the full 13^ nautical miles in 86 minutes, logging 9 knots with the engine turning as high as 370 revolutions per minute. Like many another vessel built before the
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 138 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME Jack Rickman, cook and deckhand, completed the crew. George Bonds of the Acme company handled the engine on the test cruise. Over a 6if-mile course the following day the Alhacore went out in 47 minutes and back in 44. A day later she negotiated the full 13^ nautical miles in 86 minutes, logging 9 knots with the engine turning as high as 370 revolutions per minute. Like many another vessel built before the time of heavy-oil engines, the history of the Alhacore falls into two divisions that might be described as her "distillate" and "diesel" epochs. Considerations of safety and economy led to substitution of a 60-horsepower semidiesel plant in May, 1926, for the Acme gas engine that had given yeoman service since its installation eight years previously. No one was more pleased with the new plant than the engineer, M. M. Tritch, now resident in Long Fig. 46. Patrol boat Albacore sliding- down the ways at Wilmington in December, 1917. Photograph submitted by N. B. Scofield, January, 1918. Gasoline Fire Hazard. Prior to her diesel days, life aboard the Alhacore often w^as made exciting by the threat of fire. Perhaps the nearest approach to annihilation occurred on the night of December 8, 1921, when Xidever and Patrol Captain Harry Groat had taken the vessel to the aid of a fishing craft that had gone ashore during fog that afternoon. The disabled boat was the Nueva Riva owned by S. Carmen of San Pedro. After a line had been put aboard the beached craft, the Alhacore exerted a strain, Nidever handling the pilot house controls. Groat describes the incident: "We still were pulling when I happened to look below. The whole engine room was on fire. We dropped the hook and went to work, closing everything tight, stuffing blankets in the portholes and shutt
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