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Obituary Notices
| 题名： | Obituary Notices |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | Lovencie "Vince" John Gambarel-la Jr., 83, of Houma, La., the owner of G&B Marine Inc. and other businesses, died February 7.He was a third-generation captain who quit school in the seventh grade to work as a deckhand on a stern-wheeler on which his father was captain. He became a captain at 17 and at 21 went to work for Thomas Petroleum Transit, where he was put on a single-screw direct-reversible towboat named the Reba Jane.He left the river in 1973 to become a ship pilot guiding ships into the Port of New Orleans, but before he finished training he and his best friend, Thaddeus Warren Boudreaux, founded G&B Marine with $5,000 they had saved.From 1973 to 1998 they grew it into an industry leader with 21 vessels and 300 employees. Gambarella bought out his partner in 1996 and ended up selling the company to R&B Falcon in 1998 for $40 million. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 44 |
| 页码： | 8-8 |
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