🎄 FESTOONED FOR CHRISTMAS 🎄

C.P. PATTERSON, Survey Ship
Seattle, WA., 1916.
Photo by Asahel Curtis

"In 1885, the 163-ft steam barkentine C.P. PATTERSON began plying the waters between Puget Sound and Alaska, undertaking survey missions for the US Coast and Geodetic Survey. Here, near the end of her survey career, in 1916 (before she was drafted for service in WW I), the PATTERSON rested her weary timbers in her berth on the placid waters of Seattle's Elliott Bay. It's a cold, damp December day, yet members of the PATTERSON's 61-man complement are pleased to be in port for Christmas, and they've spruced her up with some holiday cheer. Her masts and bow-sprit are festooned with Christmas trees, and even her anchor port has a sprig of yuletide evergreen. Asahel Curtis recorded the scene, a reminder of the seaman's indomitable spirit––and his links with home."

Apologies, source unknown. Perhaps past issue of PNW Quarterly.

❖ MERRY CHRISTMAS ❖ 2014

Top left is dated December 1932.
The beautiful classic DISCOVERY, with Santa Claus
on the foredeck, off the Shaw Island landing, c. 1982.
Cap Raynaud's personal card has a photo of the
EDWARD SEWALL on reverse side.
 She can be viewed elsewhere on this Log.
Click to enlarge.
Random pieces from the archives of the S.P.H.S.

TWELVE DAYS OF WINTER

Day Six

Boxing Day Holiday

Undated Empress Hotel Holiday Menu
Steamer IROQUOIS on her "Triangle Run".
Make mine smoked Black Cod please.
from the archives of S.P.H.S.©

❖ TWELVE DAYS OF WINTER ❖

Day Five from the Archives

Stuart Island, San Juan Archipelago, WA.

Santa by Ship, 1978

1978

from the archives of the S.P.H.S.

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❖ Guzzwells Sailing to South Africa ❖

FOUR SAILORS ARRIVE SOUTH AFRICA 

From the archives of S.P.H.S.©

Eighty years ago this foursome completed an England to Cape Town journey in the small craft, OUR BOY, a 12-ton ketch.

This original photo depicts Captain John Guzzwell, his wife and child, John Guzzwell, Jr., with crew of one, J. Norton.
According to the press report, they left Brixham, England, in September 1933, for Cape Town, South Africa, where they arrived on 1 May 1934.
Happy sailing Mr. Guzzwell.