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Maritime CAPTAINS, MASTERS - Mississippi Gulf Coast-Mississippi Sound, compiled by Else J. Martin
Abbreviations of Sources:
CS-MPA: Chronicle Star-Moss Point Advertiser Des: Description
DStar: Democrat-Star newspaper of Scranton and Pascagoula from 1878 to 1920.
ECS Log: Ebenezer Clark Shipyard Log Book HM. VTHM: VT Halter Marine Shipbuilding Records HP: Home port
ISR: Ingalls Shipbuilding Records, includes, Litton, Northrop-Grumman, Huntington-lngalls.
MFMB: Mississippi's Five-Masted Barkentines, by Richard W. Bricker NODD: New Orleans Daily Delta newspaper
NOSRE: New Orleans Ship Records & Enrollments of New Orleans, La., WPA transcribed, 7 volumes OFUCN,WR S#: Official Union & Confederate Records, War of the Rebellion, Series ft.
OSR-RB: Official Ship Registration; provided by Maritime Historian, Russell Barnes PC: Pascagoula Chronicle newspaper
PMR: Pascagoula Marine Report, published weekly in the Pascagoula/Scranton newspaper.
POTR: Progress of the Races by Russell
PStar: Pascagoula Star newspaper, Scranton and Pascagoula, 1876, 1877.
RB-OSA: Ray Bellande, Ocean Springs Archives.
Star: Pascagoula/Scranton newspaper pre 1877 USN; MOA, CU: U. S. Naval Records; Cornell Univ.
WPA: WPA History, Jackson Co., Miss. 1939
ALBERTS, John
•	1877 - Arrived, Port of Pascagoula, American schooner Mabel, Capt. Alberts, from Key West, ballast to Bercier & DeSmet. PMR, May 25,1877.
•	1877 - Vessel in Port, Pascagoula, American schooner Mabel, Capt. Alberts, loading, 40 tons.
PMR, Dec. 7, 1877.
•	1877 - Cleared Port of Pascagoula, American schooner Mabel, Capt. Alberts, 40 tons, to Key West, 55,000 ft. lumber and 20,000 shingles by L. N. Dantzler. PMR, Dec. 14,1877.
•	1878 - "The schooner Mabel, Capt. Alberts, which cleared some days ago, has returned for repairs, having lost her center board." DStar, Apr. 26, 1878.
•	1884 - "The schooner Dantzler, off the coast of Key West, Florida, Capt. Alberts, came up the river Saturday night, having on board some curious and interesting specimens of an immense fish skeleton, picked up fifty miles windward of the Keys, and intended to exhibit it at the New Orleans Exposition". DStar, Nov. 28,1884
•	1899 - Capt. John Alberts on Friday evening last had a narrow escape from being killed while attending to his acetylene gas machine, the gas was accidentally ignited by a candle which he uses in cleaning out the machine, causing an explosion which blew out the generator or cylinder, striking him on the left arm and making a severe wound. The captain is not laid up in consequence however. DStar, Aug. 25,1899.
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•	1899 - Capt. Jno. Alberts drives the tallest, whitest and most aristocratic animal in the county.
She came from New Orleans as a Christmas present. And was formerly owned by a millionaire. We congratulate the courteous captain. DStar, Dec. 1899.
•	1900, Ship captain, lived in Moss Point, born Germany. 1900 U. S. Census, Jackson Co., Miss.
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