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Dory fisherman came to the rescue

Superior Publishing<br><b>The festive décor and the large number of passengers on the lumber schooner Willapa, then named the Florence Olson, suggest this image may have been made at the ship’s 1917 launching.</b>
Superior Publishing
The festive décor and the large number of passengers on the lumber schooner Willapa, then named the Florence Olson, suggest this image may have been made at the ship’s 1917 launching.
SubU.S. Coast Guard<br><b>A 36-foot U.S. Coast Guard Type T motor lifeboat under way in New York Harbor. Type T motor lifeboats were built in the late 1920s and into the 1930s, and the rescue boat that came to retrieve the Willapa’s crew was most likely of this type. It is easy to imagine the difficulties involved with loading 24 people onto a boat like this.</b>
SubU.S. Coast Guard
A 36-foot U.S. Coast Guard Type T motor lifeboat under way in New York Harbor. Type T motor lifeboats were built in the late 1920s and into the 1930s, and the rescue boat that came to retrieve the Willapa’s crew was most likely of this type. It is easy to imagine the difficulties involved with loading 24 people onto a boat like this.

Jan 4, 2012


By Finn J.D. John
Special to the News-Register

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