Exy (Electa) Johnson may be less familiar than Irving Johnson, but they were a couple, and are memorialized as a couple by Los Angeles Maritime Institute naming twin brigantines for them.  You may have seen the film Irving made aboard Peking in 1929 as it rounded Cape Horn;  if not, click here.

Here are the specs for brigantine Exy Johnson below.

American Pride (1941) served as a minesweeper and fishing schooner before coming to the West Coast.  She was built in Brooklyn and came to the West Coast in the 1990s.

Matthew Turner, 2017 launch,  operates out of Sausalito for Call of the Sea.

No ambiguity exists as to what cargo comes into Port Hueneme aboard Chiquita Venture.

Crane ships SS Gem State (T-ACS-2) and SS Keystone State (T-ACS-1) make up part of the Ready Reserve fleet in the Bay area.

Morning Star has come to San Diego a long distance from home:  she was built by Scheepswerft Deweert & Zoon at Oostende in 1971.  Vessels are intended after all to travel the seas.

I’ve not learned anything about the affiliation on the beam

Relief  (WLV-605) was built on the East Coast but worked on both coasts before designated a museum ship in Oakland.

Ocean Angel and 

Polaris are both engaged in fishing.

RV Yellowfin began life as a commercial fishing but now serves as a research platform.  More West Coast fishing vessels coming in a next post in this series.

Staying with aluminum hulls here, Ocean Scout is a spill response vessel.  A photo of the vessel out of the water can be seen here.

Hot Tuna has all the lines of a downeast lobster boat.  Might the name be a hat tip to a San Francisco-born band?

All photos, any errors, WVD, who slept in the town of Sundance last night.

More truckster! posts coming too.