❖ SUMMER AND THE LIVING IS EASY ❖

Here they come––
from beautiful Steamboat Bay,
McConnell Island where the
Puget Sound Live Steamers enjoyed
their annual meeting
in August 1970, this crew steamed
to Reefnet Bay (above.)
A barbecued salmon dinner was served
to 208 people at the home of Robert Ellis
 of Shaw Island. Ellis' steam yacht
OCEANID is underway on the right
in the above photograph by
live steamer, Mahlon Lamoureux,
retired to Shaw Island.
Click to enlarge.

Motor Yacht OCEANID
285719
Built in 1946 at Ipswich, UK.
52.5-ft Harbor Service Launch
with a Scotch boiler by Ruston & Hornsby and
the oil-burning equipment by Laidlaw-Drew.
Found in Plymouth, Eng in 1960,
she was rebuilt at A.H. Moody & Son, Ltd.,
near Southhampton and
 shipped to Seattle, WA, arriving in May 1961.
 Location of photo: the San Juans, dated July 1962,
with a notation on verso––
"the black smoke was requested
by the photographer."

Saltwater People has posted more history 

of the steamboat OCEANID here