Carlins and Boating
TO CARLINE FAMILY MEMBERS: This is an informal account of the CARLIN/CARLINS involved with boating. Most of what is written here, except for the 1819 article, is from hearing about it from family members and is therefore lacking and incomplete. Additions, comments or corrections are welcome and appreciated. Personal stories about boating experiences would be of much interest. Write them down and forward to me @ weno@charter.net and I will share with all CARLIN(E) family. Thanks, Winston Boudreaux.
CARLINE FAMILY AND BOATING
22 December 1819
Favourite - A keelboat usually operating out of Franklin, Louisiana. Built at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1818. Dimensions: 88 feet, 2 inches x 12 feet 6 inches. Displacement 21 46/96 tons. Draft 2 feet. Enrolled (entry no. 143), December 22, 1819.
Owners: D. Carlin, H. Carlin, and S. Salles of Franklin. Master: D. Carlin.
Note: Two sons of Joseph Carlin - Dennis Carlin, Honore Carlin, and the son-in-law of their brother Alexis, Sylvain de Salles (married to Hortense Carlin) - are the three owners of this boat.
Source: Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous
A History & Directory by Carl A. Brasseaux & Keith P. Fontenot
Appendix A: Some Steamboats, Keelboats, and Barges known to have operated in the Bayou Country. pg 153.
SRE 1:46: Ship Registers and Enrollments of New Orleans, Louisiana. 6 Vols. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1941, Page 187
THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN
Mose Carlin & Lizzie Boyce their ancestors and descendants had much to do with boats and being around water. Those that lived in the Atchafalaya Basin used boats for transportation and to make a living by fishing, hunting, trapping, moss picking and logging.
When they left the basin many made their homes near the water in or near the towns of Jeanerette, Charenton, Centerville and Morgan City and fished full and part-time. The ones that didn’t fish commercially usually fished for recreation.
BOAT OPERATORS AND BOAT OPERATIONS OILFIELD RELATED
Peter Carline son/s – John or Jack worked for Tidewater Marine in California.
Richard Carline began his boating career as a cook on a boat and worked his way into management and is in his _______ year in the boating industry.
All Richard’s sons still work or worked on boats:
David was one of the youngest captains in the Gulf of Mexico. He has taken boats overseas.
Johnny (deceased)
Ernest is a licensed engineer
Robert is a _________
Jack Wendell Carline’s daughter Lorraine is a boat crew coordinator/scheduler for a large boat company in the Houma, Louisiana area.
Jack Wendell Carline was an engineer for Tidewater Marine.
Betty Carline’s children worked or are now working:
Troy Lynn Taylor – Licensed Mate working as an engineer.
Brian Keith Taylor – Able Bodied Seaman.
Jack Peyton Boudreaux – Graduated from Seaman’s school at Piney Point Maryland worked on ocean going vessels for a while then on as a crane operator on a “Jack up” boat in the Gulf of Mexico.
Johnny Carlin son of Clifton “Tick” Carlin and Viola “Gal” Borel.
BOAT BUILDERS (COMMERCIAL)
James Allen Carline son of Jack Wendell is a boat builder in Berwick, Louisiana
Carl Wayne Borel son of David Borel and Dorothy Carline owns a boat building company in Orange, Texas
BOAT BUILDERS (FOR SELF/PLEASURE)
Jack Wendell Carline
Clifton “Tick” Carline
FISHERMEN (PART OR FULL-TIME)
Carl Mackil Carlin son of Elvin & Josephine Palmature
Tunney B. Carlin son of Elvin & Josephine Palmature
George Carlin Jr. son of George and Lydia Mayon.
Ray Carlin son of _______________
Tunney B. Carlin
George Carlin Jr. worked at a ship yard as a draftsman and fished part time.
Ivory “Binky” Carline and his son Charles (commercial)
Sam and Wallace Carline of Morgan City, Louisiana owned an oilfield dredge boat business.
Carline related: Roland Borel, David Borel, Albert “Monk” Borel.
Labels: Boating
posted by Winston @ 6:12 PM
8 Comments
8 Comments:
Thanks, Winston. I sure didn't realize that the boating industry was so ingrained in the Carlines.
Dolly
My dad worked in the boating industry. He worked for Schwing Lumber building boats. On the side he built pirogues.
I keep looking for the steamboat, 'Advance' which Alice Carline told me George Boyce piloted - found one in Ways Directory, but it was in service only a year or two and in the northern Mississippi River area - Illinois or Pennsylvania. So then I found this book about Louisiana bayou traffic - some info I've gathered from it:
The steamboat industry was a major factor in the wealth of products being sold from the plantations and farms of south Louisiana. This caused Louisiana to be the second wealthiest state in the union at the start of the Civil War (1862). By the end of the war (1865), however, we were almost the poorest state. The major reason - the war's destruction of the plantation system and the system’s loss of labor (freeing the slaves), our production plummeted to 1/10th of the pre-war totals. And the steamboats suffered, when there was no produce for shipping. Then came the railroads which now picked up those products that the steamboats had formerly carried.
So from 1865 to 1914 (when George Boyce died), he was dealing with a dying industry. There was still some steamboats working the Atchafalaya, Bayou Teche, Bayou Lafourche, and Bayou Courtableau (Washington, LA), but the numbers of steamboats were down from an average of four hundred a year to less than 50. Within a few years, the boats were almost all showboats, since most of the marketable products were being sent by railroad.
Peggy Buford Dugas> Alice Carline> Mose Carline
Thank you Peggy for that interesting comment. As I mentioned earlier my post was informal with bare info on the subject. I talked to Jack Carline yesterday and he informed me that his brother Richard has been with Tidewater Marine for about 50 years and has a Master's license which would allow him to sail anywhere in the world. Jack Wendell was the first and youngest to receive his Chief Engineer license. And thank you dolly for telling of your dad's boat connection and for creating this blog feature. The "Carlins and Boating" article can become a very interesting and valuable view of family history if more folks would contribute their thoughts and comments. the article will be updated to combine all the added information. I know that Joseph Carlin Jr.'s grandson Urbain was one of the first settlers on Bayou Chene and he had a sugar plantation,so large boats were necessary to get the crops to market. I hope someone can find more about the steamboat "Advance" Peggy wrote about.
I worked for Pan Marine Service after my active duty in Army. Pan Marine was the operating company for Twenty Grand. They later merged with Tidewater, the parent company for Tidex who was the operator. Richard also started for Pan Marine.
I also started out as a cook. Then went to deckhand and finally to engine room. Once I had enough sea time I took and passed test for Chief Engineer Inspected Vessels. I was the first person to receive a Chief Engineer license for Oil and Mineral Industry issued by Coast Guard in New Orleans District also youngest person ever to receive a Chief's license at that time. Made several delivery trips overseas during my time as a Chief.
What I remember about Richard's time (check with him to make sure I am close to being accurate). He started as cook sometime in 1956 or 57. Worked his way to deck and later passed test for Captain. He continued to study and kept increasing license for several years. What his final Masters endorsement was I am not sure but I believe it was for an Unlimited Master. He then went to Port Captain, Area Manager (overseas) and then into management at several different positions. He also has a boat named after him. I think it is in the North Sea.
Talk to you later,
Jack
Jack, I'm sorry but I forgot to mention that you were son of Eunice Carline>son of Mose Carline.
Carlins & Boating - This is so neat. I'm immersed in history and some one else is doing current stuff. So we share and we are all learning about our family.
I sure didn't know about the other child of Lizzie and Mose...
Peggy
Fishermen:
Robert C. Persilver husband of Annie Carline Persilver>Mose Carline
Doyle Persilver>Annie Carline Persilver>Mose Carline
Robert Persilver, Jr.>Annie Carline Persilver>Mose Carline
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