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The Ship Island Fleet

The Skrmetta Family Fleet Over the years: In the early 1920s, Pete Skrmetta had his own boat built by the Fountain Shipyard in Biloxi. The vessel was a 56-foot, diesel-powered schooner lugger he named the Pan American. The excursion business eventually became so popular that Pete extended the Pan American to a 76-foot total length,…