With her log filled with colorful
stories of adventure, tales of the
Nome gold rush of 1893 and of a
daring exploit in the South Seas,
the wooden steamship Homer is
moored at the face of Pier 11-B,
Seattle, ready to resume service as
a salvage vessel.
The Homer was in Seattle four
years ago when the location was
first tried out and now Seattle will
be made a permanent base of oper
ations of the Merritt, Chapman &
Scott Corp., of Calif., owner of the
vessel. She came to Seattle this
time from Los Angeles harbor.
CRAFT, CREW, IN MOVIES
“Although it has been many years 1
since the Homer first breasted the
waves, she is as staunch as any ship j
afloat and is well equipped for sal- !
vage operations,” said Capt. Thos. j
P. Hansen, iron man of the sea, who
Is the vessel’s master.
“More than 30 years ago, the
Homer carried scores of miners to
the gold country of the Seward
Peninsula and returned them to
California with fat pokes of the yel
low metal. During those days she
was known as the Excelsior. For
that reason she was selected as the
gold ship in the filming of the mo
tion picture drama, “The Trail of
‘98”. The picture was made in Los
Angeles harbor and we of the Hom
er took stellar parts. We were in :
the movies six days. I took the part
of the hard-boiled skipper of the
gold ship just in from Nome with j
much treasure cargo and our decks
thronged with miners in the garb
of hte North.
OLD TIMER AT SALVAGING
“The salvage game is not new to
the Homer. In 1917 she was sent
from San Francisco to Tackarora
in the South ficus, 200 miles from
Tahiti to attempt to refloat the full
rigged iron sailing ship County of
Roxbury, which had been driven i
ashore by a tidal wave in 1912.!
Scores of natives were drowned by
the tidal wave and the County of
Hoxbury was cast on the beach.
Only one member of the crew of
the windjammer, the ship’s carpen
ter, was lost. The County of Rox- j
bury was bound froru~ Australia for
Portland when she was wrecked.
Our salvage efforts were unsuccess
ful.”
Captain Hansen has been in the
salvaging business since 1912. He
has been master of the Homer off
and on for a total of 14 years. The
Homer has been a salvage ship
since 1915.
SHIP WELL EQUIPPED
Built in Bandon, Ore., in 1891 the
Homer is a vessel of 502 gross tons
and 331 net tons legister, 146 feet j
long, 33.8 feet beam and 17 feet in j
depth. She operated for a time as j
a freight and passenger carrier be
tween San Francisco and Eureka.
The Homer is equipped for the
most difficult of salvage jobs. She j
has gasoline pumps of from six to
12 inches steam air compressers, lc- j
comotive and donkey boilers, Ma- |
nila hawsers 15 inches in diameter, i
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every variety of rope down to nine
threads, motor launches, diving
equipment, air drilling machines,
anchors from 4,000 pounds to 7,000
pounds, towing equipment, buoys,
two-inch wire cable 1,500 feet long,
electric, gas hoisting engines, ho~e
of all kinds, a main boom with a ca
pacity of 20 tons, radio and a tele
phone conecting with the city
lines. The vessel also carries 20,
000 feet of lumber.
Captain Hansen will be the rep
resentative of Merrett, Chapman &
Scott in this district and will have
his office aboard the ship. A wire
less operator will be on duty day
and night ready to receive calls
vdca: os trial
AUSTiN, Jan., 29, </P)—John W.
Brady, former judge of the Third
Circuit of Civil £ ppeal; of Texas,
and one of the mot prominent at
torncyr in the state, went to trial
here on a cnarge of murder in con
nection with the death of Miss
Lehlia Highsmith, 28-year-old sten
ographer, last November.
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HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEW
“OKEH” RECORDS at SYLVIA’S?
THEY ARE WONDERFUL. *
REPAIRING SCHOONER
The halibuter Sea Bird, from
which two of the owners were
drowned last fall when the boat
was wrecked near Cordova, was
recently towed to Seattle by the
Excel! II, Captain Roald. The
Sea Bird was salvaged by the
Alaska Salvage Company, Ket
chikan, and repaired theer suf
ficient for the tow to Seattle.
The vessel will be fully repaired
and come north again this sea
son. She was practically a new
boat when wrecked.
CLEANLINESS ana the best ol
meats our motto. Fry-Bruhn’s.
J. N. McCain, of Anchorage,
a member of the 1929 legislature,
has filed for reelection at the
April primary on the republi
can ticket, Third division.
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