| In 1919 this vessel was photographed berthed at the New England Fishing Co. and Canadian Fishing Co. wharf in Vancouver BC. this vessel operated as a rum runner. On February 3, 1925 this vessel was seized by the US Coast Guard Cutter Algonquin 6.6miles off the coast of Washington. this vessel was carrying 1075 cases of liquor and the rescued crew of the steamer Caoba on board. The Caoba was rumored to have been working with the Canadian rum runner Pescawha. In February 1925 this vessel sank in heavy weather 20nm off Astoria, Oregon. Her wreck drifted ashore on the beach five miles north of Ocean Park WA USA. On February 5, 1925 this vessel was outbound from Willapa Harbor for San Francisco with a cargo of lumber. After losing her engine the crew abandoned ship in two boats. One boat was picked up by the John Cudahy and the other by the rumrunner Pesawha which, on landing the survivors in Astoria her crew was seized, the crew jailed and the ship seized. Her master , Captain Robert Pamphlet, was jailed for smuggling alcohol. (Miles, Fraser (1992)). Rick James states that "in 1919 this vessel was owned by Canadian Fishing Co. and in 1923 by Western Freighters??? (Western Freighters Ltd., was to all intents and purposes, overseen by Roy Olmstead, the ex-Seattle police lieutenant, who was the mastermind overlord of a bootlegging empire in Seattle. Still, I think, they were registered under Canadian owners, probably one of Consolidated Exporters' shipping companies, and maybe chartered to Western Freighters?? at the time they all were busted off the U.S. coast.) On February 27, 1933 this vesselallided with the north jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River and was a total loss of the ship and her master. |
