RETURN OF HISTORIC STEAMSHIP BELL BRINGS BACK FOND MEMORIES
The 91 year old steamship Vic
toria bell has returned to Seattle
after an absence of nearly ten
years.
Those were quiet years for this
bell that has sounded out the
watches during the historic limetime
of the “Old Vic” . . . while she
rushed troops to the relief of Gen
eral “Chinese” Gordon in Africa
. . . while carrying men and mules
in support of the Spanish-American
War in the Philippines . . . while
hustling thousands of prospectors
to the Klondike . . . and while help
ing to keep Alaska supplied for
over half a century and during two
world wars.
The decade of silence for the old
bell was not her choice. Her tongue
was muted while she was enshrined
aboard the Cunard Liner Parthia.
And any belle that can’t talk is apt
to be a bit sulky, particularly when,
like the Old Vic bell, she has so
much to peal about.
Bell Broke Loose
“Sheer resentment was probably
the reason the bell broke loose
from her hanger while being
shipped back here from Liverpool,”
Sid Hayman, manager of the service
department of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, said. “But she will
ring again before she is presented
to the Seattle Historical Society,”
he promised. “Our shops will see
to that.”
The Cunard Steamship Company
returned the bell at the request of
L. E. Skinner, president of Alaska
Steam. He had given it to Cunard
in 1952 for a special memorial
aboard their Parthia, built in 1948,
SITKA AIRPORT JOB
Harold H. Galliett and George C.
Silides were selected by the State
to perform engineering work asso
ciated with the Sitka Airport. Funds
for the engineering work were ap
propriated by the Legislature in the
1961 Session.
The Seattle World’s Fair, April
21-Oct. 21, 1962, will have the great
est gayway fun zone ever created
for a world’s fair. The $2 million
musement program will feature 19
amusement rides, most of them new
to American fun lovers.
Our Serviceman is Ready
To Repair Your Garage
Doors At Any Time
Of The Year
Ph. GL 6-5212
720 College Road
Fairbanks, Alaska
since the Victoria was the first
Cunard liner to bear the name
“Parthia."
The Victoria was launched the
Parthia in 1870 at Dunbarton-on
the-Clyde by W. Denny & Co. She
was a first a crack Atlantic liner
on the London-New York run.
Schooner rigged, she boasted a new
mechanical marvel, a compound en
gine with shaft that could be dis
connected to idle the propellers
when there was a good wind.
Served Far and Wide
Like her owners, the Victoria
engines and rigging changed several
times as did her routes. She served
far and wide, Great Britain to Aus
tralia, South America to Singapore.
In 1887 the Victoria came out to
Vancouver, B.C., to become the first
Canadian Pacific liner. She entered
the Alaska trade in 1900 and be
came a unit of the Alaska Steam
ship Company fleet in 1908.
After having been laid up for
several years, the Victoria passen
ger accommodations were removed
and she came out in 1940 as strictly
a cargo carrier to help for the last
time in a war effort. She was de
comissioned finally in 1952.
Whistle Still Sounds
But the Old Vic whistle still an
nounces arrivals and sailings here
and along Alaska’s coast, not of the
Vic, of course, but of the Alaska
Line steamship Iliana to which it
was transferred.
“Before we turn the bell over to
the historical society, we should
have one final jam session with the
Victoria bell and whistle,” Hayman
said.
Jim Gibbs of the Marine Digest
recalled the other day that the
Alaska-Yukon Exposition was
apened by a blast from the Polotif
sky whistle,” Hayman said. "Why
shouldn't we open Century 21 with
i peal from the Victoria bell?”
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