On a single stack steamer: plying Northwest waters

I. The marine engineer and the golden era of the steamship

II. From the Old Country: Adolf Nils Loken of Old Norway ; The life at sea in the Revenue Cutter Service

III. A belle from the Naze: Cornella Berntsen and Farsund, Norway ; The Search for the Rainbow's end

IV. A Victorian romance in bustling Port Townsend

V. The Coast and Geodetic Survey Service: The Explorer ; WWI ; Back on The Explorer

VI. The roaring Twenties in West Seattle

VII. Out of New England: Benjamin Parker, the early years ; The Boston Parkers

VIII. Great Northern, Klondike, and Seattle

IX. On a steamer bound for Puget Sound: Great Northern and the Minnesota ; Ben and Geneva ; Mosquito Fleet days ; WWI shipbuilding boom in Seattle and the Niels Nielsen ; Charles Harrison Parker, Sr ; Esther June Parker

X. Coastwise lines: The Alaska Line

XI. Foreign bound lines: Admiral Oriental Line ; Dollar Line and the American Mail Line

XII. The Dollar Line and the New Deal

Xiii. A Kings Pointer, class of '42

XIV. Campaign in the Aleutians: A diary of battle ; Voyage 2 of the Liberty ship Cushman K Davis ; Voyage 3 of the Liberty ship Cushman K Davis

XV. On to victory!: A Danish beauty ; Battle of Layte Gulf ; The American Mail Line and APL

XI. Post war prosperity: On Puget Sound ; the inter-modal freight era ; Wilhelmina and Scan Travel ; End of an era

The legacy

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