We Welcome Your Letters! E-mail: editorial@seahistory.org Or mail to: Editor, Sea H istory 7 T imberknoll Rd., Pocasset, MA 02559 historic ships and their restoration. During
Elissa's Texas Pride Voyage, I cannot tell you how many small ports we visited and how the public turned our in droves to see the ship. Just imagine the public interest in an American historic ships restoration program where the general public could nor just see historic ships bur get involved in their restoration? Perhaps I ramble on, bur I was so taken with Mr. Stanford's article that I had to at least thank him for writing it.
c. SIDNEY SMITH Houston, Texas Schooners in the US Navy Las t year I saw a letter in a borrowed copy of your great periodical (Summer 2005) in which there was a letter from a Dennis Greene. He expressed an interest in finding our about West Coast sailing vessels in the navy. My father, William Lucking, served on rwo of these ships; here is an excerpt from a short write-up I collected from him. Morgan Adams Sr. sold rwo sailing vessels to the Navy (reportedly for $ 1) because the Navy had, at that time, nothing that could be our of port for more than a few days. One boat was a 110 ft. Gloucester schooner, which had been used in one of the MacMillan expeditions to rhe Arctic. Ir was custom-built for that expedition and had a double-oak planked hull to protect it from the ice. The other was Enchantress, a 126 ft. steel racing schooner. Enchantress was used briefly as a station vessel in San Pedro. My father was assigned to the former to carry our coastal defense. The ship was Radio YAG-5, socalled because it had been the radio ship on the MacMillan Arctic expedition. Dad was the only person on the base who knew anything about sailing, so they made him skipper. Radio was used by the Navy as a pilot vessel off San Pedro, delivering pilots and armed guards to all fore ign ships. My father was next assigned to Volador, a 11 4 ft. raci ng schooner owned by a Mr. W L. Valentine of the L. A. Yacht Club . D ad sailed her on offshore patrols-our for three weeks, in port for one, 300 or 400 miles off Baja California. HELEN FREDELL
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