1968 ❖ CAPTAIN BERT HOLMES IS ELECTED TO PUGET SOUND PILOTS

Capt. Bert Holmes (Right)

becomes the newest member of 
the Puget Sound Pilots.
His election this year raised to 30 the
number of men who board ships coming 
from sea, and pilot them while they are 
on Puget Sound and adjacent waters.
Capt. Holmes was welcomed into the organization
by Capt. Leonard A. Davis, president of the 
Puget Sound Pilots and also a member of the 
State Board of Pilotage Commissioners.
Homes, who resided in Olalla, Kitsap County,
was master of the Coho, 
Black Ball Transport ship, before joining the pilots.
Previously he had been a tugboat skipper.

Low-res scan of an original photo from the archives
of the Saltwater People Historical Society
Text from the Seattle-Times.