Dwight Stanley Long Collection
Finding aid created by Los Angeles Maritime Museum staff using RecordEXPRESS
Los Angeles Maritime Museum
2019
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Title: Dwight Stanley Long Collection
Dates: 1934 – 1993 (bulk 1934-1959)
Collection Number: Collection # 31
Creator/Collector:
Long, Dwight Stanley - 1915-1993
Extent: 2 cu. ft.
Repository:
Los Angeles Maritime Museum
San Pedro, California 90731
Abstract: Dwight Stanley Long’s (1915-1993) adventures as a circumnavigator, photographer and film director between 1930 and 1959 are
revealed in photograph albums, programs, correspondence, books, articles, and press releases. His 32’ ketch was the IDLE HOUR,
subject of a movie entitled “Sailing All Seas”, as well as his numerous articles.
Language of Material: English
The collection may be viewed with prior arrangement with Museum Archivist or Director.
Copyright restrictions apply.
Dwight Stanley Long Collection. Los Angeles Maritime Museum
Donated to the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in 2002.
Biography/Administrative History
Dwight Long, sailor, lecturer, and documentary filmmaker, was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1934 he left Seattle
to sail a 32 ft. ketch, the “IDLE HOUR”, around the world via the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans to the East Coast of
the United States when the ketch was destroyed in the hurricane of 1938. Long wrote a book, “Sailing All Seas” documenting
his circumnavigation of the globe. He lectured in numerous cities both during and following his journey. During World War
II he joined the U.S. Navy and became a documentary film producer. After the War, he continued making films, such as “Tanga
Tika”, released in 1954.
Scope and Content of Collection
Dwight Stanley Long's circumnavigation and adventures were captured on film as photographic prints and motion pictures between
1930 and 1959. His black and white photographs, loose and in scrapbooks, printed programs, books, correspondence, as well
as a diary kept on board his yacht, IDLE HOUR, make up this collection. The diary was on his yacht which suffered water damage
in New York, near the end of his journey. The still images portray his crew and scenes from a variety of ports worldwide.
He published the books in 1938 and 1939: Sailing All Seas in the "Idle Hour” by Dwight Long with a preface by Alan Villiers,
and Seven Seas on a Shoestring; Sailing All Seas in the "Idle Hour".
navigation
ketches
filmmakers
photographers
Long, Dwight
Long, Dwight Stanley - 1915-1993
Seattle, Washington
New York, New York
photographic prints
motion pictures
Sailing All Seas in the "Idle Hour";
Seven Seas on a Shoestring: Sailing All Seas in the "Idle Hour"
yachtsmen