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39 stories matching sailor
- The Sailors' Union Defends Its Cause
Agent E.C. Thiel responds to business interests blaming union sailors for shipping delays and commercial friction.
- The Heroine of North Beach
How Martha White, a solitary woman on the storm-lashed coast, braved mountain-high waves to pull dying sailors from the surf.
- A Knife Fight in the Bay: Union Sailors Ambush a Non-Union Crew
A boarding master tries to ship five strikebreakers onto an Alaska salmon schooner at Port Townsend. Twelve union men are waiting in the water, and the fight that follows leaves every non-union sailor hurt and swimming for shore.
- Sailor Jack Escapes City Jail Through Sawed Window
A prisoner known as 'Sailor Jack' saws through the bars of his cell and vanishes, leaving a gaping hole behind.
- The passing of Edward Eldridge, a Whatcom pioneer
A sailor-turned-settler who played a pivotal role in the early development of Bellingham and Whatcom County dies at 73.
- Tragedy in the Bay: A Fatal Scuffle at Port Townsend
A playful afternoon turned fatal when a young sailor fell from his boat and vanished into the waters of Port Townsend Bay.
- The 'High-Handed' Abduction of Non-Union Sailors
A group of laborers were forcibly removed from their ship at Port Gamble by a union crowd and sent penniless to Victoria under false pretenses.
- The Tacoma Pastor Who Challenged the Drums of War
While the nation beat the drums of war against Chile in 1892, a Tacoma minister took to the pulpit to defend the dignity of peace, challenging the government's rush to protect the honor of sailors who had been frequenting brothels.
- Five Hours Adrift Near Marrowstone Point
A sudden shift in the wind leaves three sailors clinging to their swamped sloop for five hours in the cold waters off the Olympic Peninsula before rescue arrives.
- Drowned in the San Juan Islands
A sailing excursion from Victoria to Anacortes ends in tragedy when an experienced sailor vanishes during a sudden storm.
- The Shackled Sailors of the Karoo
A federal judge in Tacoma intervenes to protect a crew 'inveigled' onto a British ship, exposing a brutal system of forced labor and maritime exploitation.
- Fatal Rail Yard Accident Claims Newcomer
A sailor known only as 'Nels' is killed while walking the Northern Pacific tracks at night.
- The Boarding-House Ransom
When a sailor fell deathly ill in Tacoma, his boarding-house proprietor held him hostage, hoping to claim the dying man's life savings as an exorbitant medical bill.
- A Deadly Fourth of July Salute
A Seattle sailor was killed instantly in Tacoma when a cannon misfired during holiday celebrations, raising questions about safety and the competence of local cannon operators.
- The Strike for a Messboy
When the crew of the whaleback steamer 'Wetmore' demanded a messboy to clean their quarters, the captain faced a labor standoff that revealed the grim realities of maritime life in the 1890s.
- Mutiny on the Margarita
A German tourist has libeled the Chilean bark Margarita, accusing its captain of rampant brutality against the crew and verbal abuse toward passengers during their voyage to Port Townsend.
- The Hero of the Ferndale Disaster
When the British bark Ferndale went down in a freezing storm off the Washington coast, one local woman braved the surf to save the lives of three sailors.
- The Bankburn Mutiny Claims
A crew's attempt to secure better provisions leads to jail time and allegations of wage theft.
- Seattle Chamber of Commerce Takes Aim at Longshoremen
The Chamber of Commerce moves to break the power of harbor unions, threatening to form competing organizations and call for police intervention.
- The Steamer Wilmington’s Illegal Cargo
A ship captain faces federal charges for allegedly importing Japanese contract laborers to work on his vessel.
- Eight Sailors Accuse a Chilean Captain of Flogging and Iron-Pin Beatings
At Port Townsend, seamen from the Chilean bark Marguerite told the consulate they were strung up by the wrists and beaten; the captain says passengers caused the trouble.
- Seattle's Independence Day Invasion
Thousands of visitors flood Seattle for the Fourth of July, causing a housing shortage as the city prepares for a massive parade and naval spectacle.
- The Tragic Awakening at the St. Charles Hotel
A man awakes to find his roommate dead from a suspected morphine overdose, revealing the dark side of a local sailor's life.
- A Sailor’s Memory of the 1841 Fourth of July
Before Seattle, Tacoma, or Olympia existed, the Wilkes Expedition celebrated Independence Day on the prairies near Fort Nisqually with a roasted ox and brass howitzers.
- A Final Port of Call
When a lonely sailor died in a local hospital, the Coast Seamen's Union ensured his burial reflected his true brotherhood, not a stranger's fate.