. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 18 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. Figure 3. Purchased in i;' iiom Coast Guard surplus stocks, the speedy 83-foot M. V. "Albacore" is employed by the Bureau of Patrol in Pacific Ocean waters between Monterey and the Oregon state line. It is equipped witli radar, radio-telephone, and other up-to-date marine equipment. Power is provided by twin 500 horsepower diesel engines. The second vessel to bear the name, the "Albacore
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 18 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. Figure 3. Purchased in i;' iiom Coast Guard surplus stocks, the speedy 83-foot M. V. "Albacore" is employed by the Bureau of Patrol in Pacific Ocean waters between Monterey and the Oregon state line. It is equipped witli radar, radio-telephone, and other up-to-date marine equipment. Power is provided by twin 500 horsepower diesel engines. The second vessel to bear the name, the "Albacore's" home port is San Francisco diesel engines. This vessel will have a complement of six men, and a cruising radius of 1,200 miles. It will be capable of remaining at sea for the longer period of time necessary in the patrol of ocean waters of the north coast. The bureau has been lacking in patrol of these waters for a number of years. This vessel will be in operation early in the fall of 1948. Two 63-foot aircraft rescue vessels were purchased near the close of the biennium. These vessels will replace two of the 45-foot boats which have been in service since 1937, and which will be sold because of obso- lescence. The fast 63-foot vessels are equipped with two 630-horsepower gas engines, radio and radar, and will be used principally in southern waters for policing closed areas. These boats have been named the "Blue- fin" and the "; The '2fi-foot twin engine patrol boat "Skipjack" was purchased in •111no, 1947, and is used for coast and harbor patrol on the south coast and Catalina Island. Two small 23-foot Chris-Craft boats were purchased in June, 1947; one, the "Bass," was stationed at IVIillerton Lake and early this year transferred to the .Sacramento River for patrol of that area; the other, the "Grunion," is stationed at San Pedro, and is used on pollution and other inshore patrol. Considerable difficulty has
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