❖ SCHOONER LAUNCH 100 YEARS AGO ❖

RISØRFlags flying for her 1917 launch day at
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co yard, Seattle, WA;
She was a Norwegian owned schooner
who got her photo in Jim Gibbs' West Coast Windjammers.
A kind reader has sent in this added information from the
Chicago Herald Examiner as listed verbatim below.
Original photo from the archives of the S.P.H.S.©

Information on the fate of the RISØR:
"New York, 2 May––the Norwegian motor schooner RISØR caught fire and was abandoned at sea about 500 miles southeast of Montauk Point today, according to a wireless message received here by the naval communication service from the steamer CITY OF CANTON, which is bringing the schooner's crew to this port. The RISØR left Norfolk, VA., last Thursday for Denmark. She registered 1,343 tons."
The Chicago Herald-Examiner. 3 May 1920. 
Courtesy of D. Bertels. 1 October 2019.

Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. was established in 1898 on Elliott Bay, Seattle. They built Harbor Island in Seattle in 1909; until 1938, it was the largest artificial island in the world.
PSB&DC also built the harbor of Pt. Townsend in 1931 and the first Lake WA floating bridge and Husky Stadium.