This photo was sent to the LOG by Pensioner Richard E. McAll of Saraland, Ala. It was taken at sea aboard the SS Alcoa Cavalier in the mid-1950s.In the front, kneeling, is the deck steward, Ralph Smith. McAll is directly behind him. Also included in the photo is Bill Lassiter (seated, left). Next to him are Whitey Plumkett, McAll, Quartermaster Bill “Red” Roach, Bill Terry (former New York Giants pitcher, and a passenger on the vessel), Bosun Jimmy Hunt and Jimmy Patterson. Captain Alfred Jump is standing second from right. Others pictured in the snapshot are Morris J. Danzey, Dewey Saxon, George Dean, Armando Salazar, George Gill and James “Fat Boy” Williams.
McAll, 75, joined the SIU in the port of Mobile in 1955. He sailed as a chief cook. Brother McAll was on the picket line in the 1946 General Maritime beef. He was a former member of the Boilermakers Union, Local 693 and the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, Local 18, AFL-CIO. Seafarer McAll was born in Louisiana. He retired from the union in 1986.
If anyone has a vintage union-related photograph he or she would like to share with the LOG readership, please send it to the Seafarers LOG, 5201 Auth Way, Camp Springs, MD 20746. Photographs will be returned, if so requested.
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