 biloxi images biloxi images ray thu 7012010 1122 people   19th century   scenery  casino rowpoint cadet casino rowcentral beach  from lee streetoctober 2013 from lee streetoctober 2013  biloxi bay bridgenovember 2013   seafood industry mike sekul   biloxi schooner built 1992 for the city of biloxi on clay point by nelious neil c covacevich  19202011 image february 1992 by ray l bellande  biloxi oyster tongers off deer island  image by anthony v ragusin  19021997 made november 24 1935 courtesy of the cc tex hamill collectionmgcccperkinston ms archives and charles l sullivan professor emeritus and mgccc archivist this image was made in november 1935 by av tony ragusin mr biloxi in december 2010 geraldine hankins johnson 19352010 identified these oystermen lr james dixon hankins 19101998 and alfred l harris 18861966 geraldine hankins johnson was the daughter of james d hankins and eunice harris 19152000 eunice was the daughter of alfred l harris and  biloxi boatmen circa 1910  courtesy of tom walker  metalworkertom yahoocom  these images from the collection of elsie bosarge m john manduffie and later married jules boulo fountain please contact me or tom walker if you can identify these biloxi sailors possibly crew members of the emma harvey  merci beaucoup the william martin  the william martin  was primarily freight schooner hauling charcoal naval stores and mercantile goods to and fro from coastal mississippi to new orleans she was owned by william westfall of vancleave jackson county mississippi image courtesy of russell barnes biloxi mississippi the albert baldwin  the albert baldwin was in 1894 built at handsboro missisippi by mateo martinolich 18611934 at his shipyard on bayou bernard for joseph m stiglets of stonewall harrison county mississippi the albert baldwin was 65 feet long had a 244foot beam with a hold depth of 5 feet she was coverted to motor power as this later images depicts image from ray l bellande and information courtesy of russell barnes biloxi mississippi the emma harvey  ray l bellande images the vessel at cedar point mobile county alabama circa 1960 the  emma harvey  was a biloxi schooner utilized in the shrimp and oyster industry of the mississippi and louisiana coasts in the early years of this century she was built by casimir j harvey  18451904 at his back bay now d iberville shipyard probably in the 1890 s and was named for his youngest daughter  emma agnes harvey  18891968 although the physical dimensions of the emma harvey are not known it is documented in chattel book 2 p 232 of the chancery clerk s office of harrison county that casimir harvey conveyed a schooner on may 25 1889 to harry t howard the boat was called the ht howard  and was thirty six feet in length fourteen and two sixteenth feet in breadth three feet deep and weighed eight and thirteen one hundredths tons after the dauphin island causeway was completed in the 1950s the  emma harvey   plied the bay and gulf waters as a shrimp trawler according to the indigenous people of coastal alabama the high tides and strong winds of hurricane frederick on september 12 1979 blew the casmir harvey built schooner into the wide expanses of the mon island marsh or portersville bay to the west of cedar point the fate or position of the  emma harvey  is presently unknown but it is generally held that the biloxi built schooner was destroyed by hurricane frederick  fairy queen  moored in old fort bayou at ocean springs for nearly three decades the fairy queen  built 1890 by casmir harvey  was a familiar sight to residents of coastal west jackson county as it plied the waters of fort bayou and biloxi bay ww branigar brother of harvey w branigar 18751953 a founder of gulf hills in 1926 organized the fairy queen ship company in 1927  it served that verdant resort as a pleasure craft to entertain guests the fairy queen  gulf hill s pleasure yacht also embarked from the biloxi yacht club with passengers and returned at sunset to the resort on old fort bayou north of ocean springs august in 1911 jd covacevich built two identical schooners named july and august this photo is post 1933 after she had been refitted with an engine note the alpha numeric state registration number she measured less than 15 tons and was thus able to opt for the state registration as opposed to the federal registration she had when built this option began circa 1933 comments of russell barnes biloxi historian in june 2011 see the daily herald  august 3 1950 p 5  casino industry imperial palace evangelical and reformed back bay mission  image october 1995ray l bellande 4468 views  