Peter Andrew Taliancich

TALIANCICH, PETER Oysterman-Captain

Captain P. Taliancich was born 1889, in Igrane, Dalmatia, where he attended Grammar school. At the age of 14 he came to New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a fisherman and after a year purchased his own fishing boat. He fished for seven years and then bought a grocery store, which he sold in 1922. He went to Navigation and Engineering school and obtained a Masters License for any tonnage and on any river. He organized the Victoria Navigation Co. and built a boat of 250 tons. The "Victoria" is transporting; passengers and supplies two times a week, Monday and Friday, and goes regularly from New Orleans to Buras, Ostrica, Triumph, Boothville, Olga, Venis, Quarantine, Pilot Town, Head of Pass and Burrwood. Weekly he delivers about five thousands sacks of oysters and two thousands crates of oranges. Those products are mostly from Croatians. He is a member of the Slavonian Society. He was marred in 1913 to Josephina, born Muhoberac, the daughter of Captain Muhoberac from Osojnik, near Dubrovnik. They had six children: Sima, Emil, John, Joseph, Lawrence, and daughter, Lorena. All the son are working on the Victoria or in the office of Victoria Navigation Company.