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Post by SS Shasta on Feb 16, 2007 18:06:53 GMT -8
WOW!! Again what lovely photos. Many thanks . I was lucky enough to ride on her several times as a kid. She had a beautiful cabin with wood panels. Could passengers use the upper deck? Just can remember after 50 years.
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Post by FNS on Feb 16, 2007 18:29:37 GMT -8
WOW!! Again what lovely photos. Many thanks . I was lucky enough to ride on her several times as a kid. She had a beautiful cabin with wood panels. Could passengers use the upper deck? Just can remember after 50 years. INCREDIBLE PICS OF THE CHIPPEWA! Yes, the CHIPPEWA had a Sun Deck. There were benches as seen in the top pic. The Saloon Deck looked beautiful in the next two pics. The Main Deck looked neat as well. Great pics! ;D
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Post by SS Shasta on Feb 26, 2007 12:14:08 GMT -8
Again, Evergreen, what lovely photos! Have you considered doing a similar posting for MV Willipa and MV Enetai. I had many crossings on them as a kid, but I can't remember much about their cabins. They were nice, but not as unique as the MV Chippewa.
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Post by SS Shasta on Jan 14, 2008 14:07:59 GMT -8
I noticed that Evergreen is featuring MV Chippewa this week. Does anyone know if passengers were allowed to "take in the sun" on the boat deck? I just can't remember. She was certainly the most beautiful ferry that I have ever ridden; I can still visualize her lovely wood cabin. I also think that she had beautiful wood stairs that I think went up to the boat deck, but can't remember for sure. My dad told me that she was a wonderful ship to steer as she was a "real ship" rather than "just a ferry." He was always talking about how lucky he was when he was assigned to her rather than "the great silver slug."
Many thanks for the lovely photo!
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Post by EGfleet on Jan 16, 2008 18:37:50 GMT -8
I noticed that Evergreen is featuring MV Chippewa this week. Does anyone know if passengers were allowed to "take in the sun" on the boat deck? I just can't remember. She was certainly the most beautiful ferry that I have ever ridden; I can still visualize her lovely wood cabin. I also think that she had beautiful wood stairs that I think went up to the boat deck, but can't remember for sure. My dad told me that she was a wonderful ship to steer as she was a "real ship" rather than "just a ferry." He was always talking about how lucky he was when he was assigned to her rather than "the great silver slug." Many thanks for the lovely photo! If you check out the Chippewa section of the my website, the photo on top has a good shot of her hurricane deck...looks like there are benches up there. I know you could sit up there on the Enetai and Willapa and am pretty sure you could on the Chippe too.
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Post by SS Shasta on Apr 14, 2010 12:38:41 GMT -8
She was a real beauty, perhaps the most beautiful vessel in the fleet. It was a real joy to ride on her and it makes me sad not to be able to do it again.
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Post by mrdot on Dec 20, 2010 21:00:08 GMT -8
:)once again accolades go out to EGfleet for those evocative pics. of Chippewa taken not long after I as a youngster travelled that same ship and course on a shopping trip with my parents and family over to Bellingham. I guess in the late 50's, I guess wettcoast was just a baby!, and would not know any of this! :)mrdot.
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Post by FNS on Dec 20, 2010 22:26:57 GMT -8
I echo the accolades. Superb collection of CHIPPEWA photos! Meanwhile... When the Steel Electrics FRESNO and SANTA ROSA arrived on Puget Sound, they were converted into single enders (as we all know). In the act, they lost their Number Two End wheelhouses. The Black Ball Line had two fine whistles in their hands to use on other ferries. One obvious candidate was the CHIPPEWA as we see within the red circle below. This had a white light atop and would light up each time the whistle would sound (to assist deck officers on other ferries and floating objects as to which ferry was sounding her whistle). The KALAKALA had an additional whistle attached to her forward face as seen in the red circle below. This might have been from a converted Steel Electric. Notice the whistle light below the trumpet.
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Post by Barnacle on Dec 21, 2010 7:27:44 GMT -8
When the Steel Electrics FRESNO and SANTA ROSA arrived on Puget Sound, they were converted into single enders (as we all know). In the act, they lost their Number Two End wheelhouses. The Black Ball Line had two fine whistles in their hands to use on other ferries. One obvious candidate was the CHIPPEWA as we see within the red circle below. This had a white light atop and would light up each time the whistle would sound (to assist deck officers on other ferries and floating objects as to which ferry was sounding her whistle). Interesting... but the Chippewa's whistle was a much deeper tone than the Steel-Electric whistles (the Klickitat, as far as I could tell, had her original whistles judging from the tone; the other three had them replaced). And yes, I have access to a copy of the Thorniley recordings of whistles. If the Chippewa received one of the whistles from the converted S/Es, then it would have most likely been used as a ranging whistle, and if this is the case then I'm mildly surprised that it would have had a whistle light on it. Except I have seen a photo of the Kalakala without that whistle present and the light was already there. Moreover, a whistle light has to be visible from all around the vessel; that one is only visible for 225 degrees, tops. I think you're looking at a forward navigation light.
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Post by EGfleet on Dec 21, 2010 8:40:20 GMT -8
When the Steel Electrics FRESNO and SANTA ROSA arrived on Puget Sound, they were converted into single enders (as we all know). In the act, they lost their Number Two End wheelhouses. The Black Ball Line had two fine whistles in their hands to use on other ferries. One obvious candidate was the CHIPPEWA as we see within the red circle below. This had a white light atop and would light up each time the whistle would sound (to assist deck officers on other ferries and floating objects as to which ferry was sounding her whistle). Interesting... but the Chippewa's whistle was a much deeper tone than the Steel-Electric whistles (the Klickitat, as far as I could tell, had her original whistles judging from the tone; the other three had them replaced). And yes, I have access to a copy of the Thorniley recordings of whistles. If the Chippewa received one of the whistles from the converted S/Es, then it would have most likely been used as a ranging whistle, and if this is the case then I'm mildly surprised that it would have had a whistle light on it. Except I have seen a photo of the Kalakala without that whistle present and the light was already there. Moreover, a whistle light has to be visible from all around the vessel; that one is only visible for 225 degrees, tops. I think you're looking at a forward navigation light. Yep, Barnacle is right--that light was there long before the whistle.
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Post by SS Shasta on Apr 9, 2011 17:45:05 GMT -8
Her lovely cabin brings back many fond memories. She also had a very nostalgic galley with many of those round seats like they had in old fashioned drugstores.
Just wondering if CG rules allow for any wood to be used in new vessel construction?
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Post by FNS on Apr 9, 2011 22:08:44 GMT -8
Just wondering if CG rules allow for any wood to be used in new vessel construction? The new CHETZEMOKA has a fair amount of "wood" in her cabin on the Saloon Deck. Don't know if this wood is real or not. It looks nice, though. This same kind of material is being seen aboard some of the other WSF ferries as well, after their recent makeovers.
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Post by Barnacle on Apr 10, 2011 6:47:02 GMT -8
The "wood" paneling shown above is probably formica-type laminate like all the other recent refurbishments. (I haven't been aboard the Chetzemoka to check, but I can't imagine why they would use wood--aside from the flammability issue, maintenance would be a bear.)
I do believe WSF has been actively working to remove as much wood as possible from the boats, replacing it with less flammable material. I'd have to check if any is left on the Elwha at all, outside of the pilothouse and the galley's toothpick tray. And she is the only one I can think of where there is any wood in the cabin at all (the strips on top the seat benches were wood at one time, but at least the ones in the main cabin were replaced with metal).
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Post by EGfleet on Feb 9, 2012 7:09:06 GMT -8
Reposting this as the video got moved...Chippewa at full speed with the Century 21 logo on her side working the Anacortes-Sidney route.
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Post by EGfleet on Mar 5, 2013 11:01:09 GMT -8
Some really cool footage of the wreck of the Tacoma Narrows bridge, but for the sake of this thread, check out the footage around 4:11.
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Post by SS San Mateo on Dec 1, 2015 20:17:11 GMT -8
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Post by EGfleet on Dec 1, 2015 21:05:17 GMT -8
I agree it's the Chippewa...but...it is so inaccurate. It was the Puget Sound Navigation Company, not Corporation, and the livery of the Chippewa is WSF, not Black Ball. Well, mostly. The smokestack appears to be in PSN red. I like the artwork, but it would drive me bonkers if I had to look at it every day.
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Post by northwesterner on Dec 1, 2015 21:15:39 GMT -8
I agree it's the Chippewa...but...it is so inaccurate. It was the Puget Sound Navigation Company, not Corporation, and the livery of the Chippewa is WSF, not Black Ball. Well, mostly. The smokestack appears to be in PSN red. I like the artwork, but it would drive me bonkers if I had to look at it every day. John Rozich is the preeminent chalkboard menu artist in the Puget Sound area (he has competition... which is something my friends in Arizona can't believe there is even a market for). I went to high school with his daughter. I wonder if he drew this off a design from Uptown, or if he had to research and design this on his own (go research a 1940s Ferry scene, and make it look like its from that era)...
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Post by EGfleet on Dec 2, 2015 7:38:55 GMT -8
I agree it's the Chippewa...but...it is so inaccurate. It was the Puget Sound Navigation Company, not Corporation, and the livery of the Chippewa is WSF, not Black Ball. Well, mostly. The smokestack appears to be in PSN red. I like the artwork, but it would drive me bonkers if I had to look at it every day. John Rozich is the preeminent chalkboard menu artist in the Puget Sound area (he has competition... which is something my friends in Arizona can't believe there is even a market for). I went to high school with his daughter. I wonder if he drew this off a design from Uptown, or if he had to research and design this on his own (go research a 1940s Ferry scene, and make it look like its from that era)... If I had to guess, I'd say it was a mirror image of this postcard:
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