A ship with the family name

Spanish tanker Campuzano. Canary Islands, 17 Nov 1965.

While looking at a recently added database on Ancestry for US Select Crew Lists and Manifests, 1903-1962, I came across the name of a Spanish vessel called the Campuzano. That's an interesting find, as my Granny's Campuzano family likely dates back to Spain sometime in the 1700s. This particularly vessel appears in the database between 1947 and 1952, running between Bilbao, Sevilla, New Orleans and Texas.

According to Shipspotting.com, where I located the photo above, the Campuzano was built in Valencia, Spain in 1932. Below is an affidavit from the arrival manifest in New Orleans from 1952.

Ancestry. Ship manifest, 1952.