Baranof (steamer)

The steamship Baranof of the Alaska Steamship Co. was chartered by the Continental Tours of San Francisco for a 71 -day winter cruise to South American ports via the Straits of Magellan, returning by way of the Panama Canal, but the projected cruise was canceled late in the year because of unsettled world conditions due to the European war. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1939, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 474.

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Baranof (steamer)

The imminence of war did not entirely eliminate industrial disputes in 1941, although stoppages by this cause were less frequent and of shorter duration than in the past. Late in September the Alaska steamship Baranof, with 170 passengers and cargo including 1,200 tons of strategic military supplies, was held at the dock in Seattle for more than five days when members of the marine fireman's union protested the qualifications of one of the ship's cooks. The liner eventually sailed with both the unpopular cook and the discontented firemen aboard. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1941, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior, 1966.

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