SHIP NOTES Island of the Bounty~ \byagl' to Pitcairn : Thl' last chaptl'r in thl' Boun~J ' saga
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the life of the river. (See Ms. LopezMena ' s testimony in SH37: 17.) " To those of us who knew him ," concluded Mabie , " Bill made his comer of the world Immeasurably richer by his presence. " Sterling Hayden Mastheadman aboard the Gertrude Thebaud in her 1938 race against the Bluenose , mate aboard Irving and Exy Johnson's Yankee in her world-girdling voyaging, OSS agent in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in World War II , historian , novelist, drunkard and raconteur sans parei 1, as well as a noted movie actor, Sterling Hayden slipped his cable on May 23 after a long bout with cancer in his Sausalito home . (He lived there, in Connecticut, and aboard a barge in Paris in his later years, and also, incognito, in the Meyer's Hotel in South Street while he was writing his massive novel Voyage.) Three years ago he visited Gloucester, where he had grown up in the roughand-tumble of the fisheries and where he is remembered with respect, and he sat reminiscing with the Gloucester historian Joe Garland . "I see Piney," he said, meaning Ben Pine, the Thebaud' s famous skipper. " I see O'Toole [his pal Larry O'Toole]. I see the Taybow [the Thebaud]. Gone . Damn it. All gone. " The Johnsons , our Chairman Emeritus Karl Kortum , your president , all who knew him, remember the grandeur he found in ships in the man himself. His stormy , heroic, tremendous life is ended now, and his name sits secure with that of Piney , O 'Toole, the Taybow ... '' Gone , damn it. ' ' But never to be forgotten among sai lormen. C. Bradford Mitchell Brad Mitchell , widely known in New York shipping circles and among steamship aficionados across the nation , died February 23 at age 78 . An early member of the Steamship Historical Society and sometime editor of its journal Steamboat Bill, Brad's genial but sometimes caustically witty presence was felt at the helm of the American Merchant Marine Institute and in work done for the Institute of Marine Underwriters, American Salvage Association and kindred bodies. A full list of his published work is given in the Summer issue of Steamboat Bill, where , as elsewhere, his authoritative knowledge and always helpful outlook will be missed . An appreciation of the life of Captain Armin Elsaesser appears on pages 3637, and of the marine artist Mark Greene on page 23. PS SEA HISTORY , AUTUMN 1986