Enetai, Inside and Out

[EGfleet]

I don't have as many interior photos of the Enetai, but the two were identical:








and how she looks today on the car deck:


Photos 1&2, postcards, # 3,4& 5, Joe Williamson, 6, Harre Demoro, with colorwork I did on it, 7, unknown, 8, Hornblower Yachts photo.

[SS San Mateo]

Thank you so much for posting all these pictures of the older ferries.

I noticed something on the passenger deck windows. The top portion of almost all of the windows appear to be painted over on the Enetai, but not on the Willapa. Was there a particular reason for this?

[EGfleet]

vashondude said:

Thank you so much for posting all these pictures of the older ferries.

I noticed something on the passenger deck windows. The top portion of almost all of the windows appear to be painted over on the Enetai, but not on the Willapa. Was there a particular reason for this?

This is a total shot in the dark--but I believe that photo of the Enetai's interior was taken during WWII, whereas the shots of the Willapa were taken right after her conversion and when she went into service...this I know because being Asahel Curtis shots, they had to be taken before his death in 1941, so the Willapa would have been brand-spankin' new.

Anyway, where I was going with this Is I know the ferries during WWII periodically had to sail "blacked out." It could be that it was easy enough to block off the bottom portion of the window but not the top, so they painted it over. That's purely a guess on my part but that is about the only thing I can think of...