| Helene (schooner) | The Helene, a four-masted schooner of 927 tons and 1200 M capacity, was built at Port Blakely in 1900 by Hall Bros. for Allen & Robinson, Honolulu. She was ashore at Ha wan in March, 1918, being refloated at a cost of $3000, while repairs took another $4000. After 25 years in the Puget Sound-Hawaii lumber trade, she was sold in 1925 to the Matson Navigation Co. which had her converted into a barge, the job being handled by the Simon Engineering Co. in Seattle. It was completed at the end of April, 1925. Matson then loaded the Helene w it h 940,000 feet of lumber at P o r t Gamble, Bellingham and Port Angeles, and she left the Sound May 30, 1925, in tow of the Interisland tug Maoi, for Honolulu. That was the Helene's last voyage from the Sound in the lumber trade. In the Islands, Matson used the Helene for some time in barging pineapples from the plantations to the canneries in Honolulu, but later equipped her as an oil barge. As such the Helene came back to the Coast. In 1926 while bound from San Francisco fo |
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| Helene (schooner) | William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 28, 163. |
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| Helene (schooner) | The Helene, a four-masted schooner of 927 tons and 1200 M capacity, was built at Port Blakely in 1900 by Hall Bros. for Allen & Robinson, Honolulu. She was ashore at Ha wan in March, 1918, being refloated at a cost of $3000, while repairs took another $4000. After 25 years in the Puget Sound-Hawaii lumber trade, she was sold in 1925 to the Matson Navigation Co. which had her converted into a barge, the job being handled by the Simon Engineering Co. in Se- attle. It was completed at the end of April, 1925. Matson then loaded the Helene w it h 940,000 feet of lumber at P o r t Gamble, Bellingham and Port Angeles, and she left the Sound May 30, 1925, in tow of the Interisland tug Maoi, for Honolulu. That was the Helene's last voyage from the Sound in the lumber trade. In the Islands, Matson used the Helene for some time in barging pineapples from the plantations to the canneries in Honolulu, but later equipped her as an oil barge. As such the Helene came back to the Coast. In 1926 while bound from San Francisco |
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| Helene (schooner) | The schooner Helene, for 12 years in the lumber trade between Bellingham and Honolulu under Capt. 0. Lembke, was sold by Allen & Robinson to the Matson Co., who resold her to the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. for use as a barge in the inter -island pineapple trade. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1925, H. W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 363. |
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| Helene (yacht) | For operation in survey work of navigable waters in Alaska, the Army Engineers purchased the 373-ton ocean going diesel yacht Helene from Charles E. Sorenson, her East Coast owner. The 147 -foot vessel, powered by two 400 horse power engines, was renamed J. B. Cavanaugh upon her arrival in Seattle, in honor of the late Col. J. B. Cavanaugh, for many years district engineer at that port. xxx, p. 474. |
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| Louise Helene | See LOUIS. |
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| Princess Helene (liner) | Another CRP ship sold to Greeks, The Marine Digest. XLI (June 22, 1963). The Princess Helene which since 1930 has operated between Saint John, New Brunswick and Digby, Nova Scotia was sold for $150,000. Ohter former princesses that have embarked on new careers under the Greek flag are: Princess Charlotte, Princess Alice, Princess Adelaide, Princess Joan and Princess Elizabeth. |
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| Princess Helene (steamer) | Norman R. Hacking and W. Kaye Lamb. The Princess Story a century and a half of w, p. 347. (Also known as the Carina II and the Carina.). |
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